Session One: Written By Herself
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Documenting the American South
Versions of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- Edited by Yellin (great for teachers to read)
- Edited by Mitchell (great for the broad-based primary sources; great for students)
- Free Doc South version (see link above)
Primary Sources related to Harriet Jacob’s Life, Digitized
- Yale Gilder Lehrman Center, Selected Correspondence Related to Harriet Jacobs
- Digital Public Library, Harriet Jacobs Sources Set
Writing and Videos about Jacobs by Scholars
- Biography of Jacobs by Yellin
- N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources: Interview with Yellin
- History Cambridge: Tiya Miles and Cambridge (Mass) History of Anti-Slavery
- Frances Smith Foster on African American Women’s Writing
- Yellin interviewed on NPR
NOTE: Resources prepared by LaKisha Simmons, Ph.D.