''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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