| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1

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Jean Fagan Yellin. Harriet Jacobs: A Life. New York: Basic Books. 2004. Pp. xxi, 394. $27.50.

The literary historian Jean Fagan Yellin has produced a stunning biography of the nineteenth-century African American writer, activist, and former slave Harriet Jacobs, capping off a career commitment to this important subject. Twenty years ago, Yellin rescued from obscurity and edited Jacobs's narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Originally published in 1861, it has become enormously influential in the study of American slavery, African American letters, and African American women's history. But bringing Jacobs's writing to a broad audience was only the beginning of Yellin's quest. Over the years she painstakingly searched for any evidence that might give depth to the original, fragmented story. This was an enormous challenge because of the paucity of documentary sources and Jacobs's own desire to obscure many of the painful details of her life.

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