In the long and terrible history of human bondage, it was only the black slaves in the United States One of the most curious aspects of African people's enslavement in this country is that he and she wrote about the severity of their own confinement. its loss and rediscovery -makes it an emblem of the history of the black woman's literary tradition. ''READER,'' Harriet Jacobs writes in the preface to her 1861 slave narrative, ''be assured this narrative is no fiction.'' Despite the author's desperate desire to be believed, her bold claim of veracity andĪ dozen enthusiastic reviews and notices in the abolitionist press, the authorship of Harriet Jacobs's slave narrative would remain, for the next 120 years, a matter of doubt and dispute. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL Written by Herself. Henry Louis Gates Jr., a professor of English and African Studies at Cornell University, wrote ''Figures in Black'' and edited ''The Slave's Narrative.'' Section 7, Column 1 Book Review Deskīy HENRY LOUIS GATES JR.
November 22, 1987, Sunday, Late City Final Edition
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