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Brent, Linda; pseudonym of Jacobs, Harriet Ann. The Deeper Wrong; or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself. Edited by Lydia Maria Child. 8vo, publisher's cloth; clipped signature of Lydia Maria Child laid in. London, 1862

  • Notes: first english edition of the first slave narrative written by a woman. Long regarded as fiction by many, and even attributed to Lydia Maria Child by some, recent evidence has proven the writing to be by Harriet Ann Jacobs, an ex-slave. Sabin 7722; Dumond, page 68; Loggins, page 228; Blockson 9554 (American edition).

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