| Author | : Mary Maillard |
| File Size | : 51,5 Mb |
| Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 09 May 2017 |
| ISBN | : 9780299311803 |
| Pages | : 248 pages |
Whispers of Cruel Wrongs by Mary Maillard Book PDF Summary
Harriet Jacobs's famous autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, includes her heartbreaking account of parting with her young daughter, Louisa, who had been taken away to the North by her white father. Here, Mary Maillard follows the thread of the Jacobs family lineage by revealing the communications of Louisa Jacobs and her close friends in more than seventy previously unidentified letters. In this annotated correspondence, new voices call out from the lost world of nineteenth-century African American women who persevered despite difficult family obligations and the racial strife that marked the post-Reconstruction era.