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Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)

http://jeanfagan.yellin.net/    Jean Fagan Yellin's website. 
Her new biography of Harriet Jacobs was published in 2004.

Jean Fagan Yellin:  "Written by Herself: Harriet Jacobs' Slave Narrative."
American Literature, 53 (November 1981), 479-486.

Here are links to Harriet Jacobs' biography and Yellin's work:  http://appserv.pace.edu/execute/page.cfm?doc_id=10875  

Here is the URL for the Pace University archives that houses Harriet Jacobs' papers:
http://www.harrietjacobspapers.org/ <http://www.harrietjacobspapers.org/>     

http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2004-01/incidents.html
"Incidents in the Life of an Abolitionist: The Harriet Jacobs Papers Project" by Paulette W. Campbell. Published in Humanities, January/February 2004, Volume 25/Number 1.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1869987 
Link to NPR program host Tavis Smiley's interview with Jean Fagan Yellin (May 2004)