Legacy, April 30th, 2005
By Jean Fagan Yellin. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2004. 394 pp. $27.50
In 1987, Harvard University Press published Jean Fagan Yellin's breakthrough edition of Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, a powerful slave narrative, first published in 1861, that exposed the sexual exploitation of slave girls and women at the heart of the institution of slavery. Before Yellin's edition, most scholars agreed that the narrative's pseudonymous author, "Linda Brent," was its white, abolitionist editor, Lydia Maria Child. Sixteen years later, Yellin has carried her ...
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