![]() Yellin’s book explores beyond Jacobs’s own autobiography and traces Jacobs’s escape north, the harassment she endured by her former owner, and her return south during the Civil War to establish a school for black refugees behind Union lines. Jean Fagan Yellin, Distinguished Professor Emerita at Pace University, was awarded the prize for her book Harriet Jacobs: A Life, which recovers the experience of this once-forgotten but remarkable woman who lived 29 years as a slave, seven of which were spent in a cramped hiding place that kept away a sexually predatory master. (New York) - A long-awaited biography of Harriet Jacobs, who wrote the 1861 classic, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, won the annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize awarded by Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. Jean Fagan Yellin’s Biography of Legendary “Slave Girl” wins $25,000 Frederick Douglass Prize ![]()
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