she wasn't able to secure a publisher until one of her white abolitionist friends, and that was lidia maria child, wrote the preface for the book and sort of gave it her endorsement. which was kind of typical among slaves. people say oh, you write so well, how could you have been a slave. you speak so well how could you have been a slave? lydia maria child gave then dorisment to say this was a true story about harriet jacobs. it was published v published in 1861 on the eve of the civil war. and it's one of the few, not the only and not even the first but one of the few slave narratives that was written by a woman. most of the ones that we're famt with, that we calm across were narratives written by male slaves. they wrote about their confrontations with slavemasters, their quest for freedom as a kind of individual activity. have any of you read like frederick douglass or any other slave narratives? i'm seeing one. so we'll talk a little bit about sort of what the difference is between harriet jacobs and the other kinds of slave narratives written by men. anybody have any initial thoughts ab

she wasn't able to secure a publisher until one of her white abolitionist friends, and that was lidia maria child, wrote the preface for the book and sort of gave it her endorsement. which was kind of typical among slaves. people say oh, you write so well, how could you have been a slave. you speak so well how could you have been a slave? lydia maria child gave then dorisment to say this was a true story about harriet jacobs. it was published v published in 1861 on the eve of the civil war. and it's one of the few, not the only and not even the first but one of the few slave narratives that was written by a woman. most of the ones that we're famt with, that we calm across were narratives written by male slaves. they wrote about their confrontations with slavemasters, their quest for freedom as a kind of individual activity. have any of you read like frederick douglass or any other slave narratives? i'm seeing one. so we'll talk a little bit about sort of what the difference is between harriet jacobs and the other kinds of slave narratives written by men. anybody have any initial thoughts ab