Foreword Preface PART ONE. Introduction: A New Voice for Freedom Jacobs's Early Life What Really Happened? Other Dominant Themes The Power of the Pen Pseudonyms of Key Figures in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself PART TWO. The Document Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, Edited by L. Maria Child PART THREE. Related Documents 1. Original Title Page 2. Will of Margaret Horniblow, April 8, 1825 3. American Beacon, Advertisement for the Capture of Harriet Jacobs, July 4, 1835 4.

Harriet Jacobs, Letter to Amy Post, 1852? 5. Harriet Jacobs, Letter to Amy Post, April 4, 1853 6. Harriet Jacobs, Letter to Amy Post, March 1854 7. Harriet Jacobs, Letter to Amy Post, June 21, 1857 8. Lydia Maria Child, Letter to Harriet Jacobs, August 13, 1860 9. Weekly Anglo-African, Review of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, April 13, 1861 10. "Am I Not a Woman and a Sister?" 11. John S.

Jacobs, A True Tale of Slavery, 1861 12. Harriet Jacobs, Life Among the Contrabands, 1862 13. Harriet Jacobs, Letter to Edna Dow Cheney, April 25, 1867 APPENDIXES A Harriet Jacobs Chronology (1813-1897) Questions for Consideration Selected Bibliography Index.