Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl or The Communist Manifesto

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

Author: Harriet Jacobs

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:

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In what has become a landmark of American history and literature, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl recounts the incredible but true story of Harriet Jacobs, born a slave in North Carolina in 1813. Her tale gains its importance from her descriptions, in great and painful detail, of the sexual exploitation that daily hauntedher life—and the life of every other black female slave.

As a child, Harriet Jacobs remained blissfully unaware that she was a slave until the deaths of both her mother and a benevolent mistress exposed her to a sexually predatory master, Dr. Flint. Determined to escape, she spends seven years hidden away in a garret in her grandmother's house, three feet high at its tallest point, with almost no air or light, and with only glimpses of her children to sustain her courage. In the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, she finally wins her battle for freedom by escaping to the North in 1842.

A powerful, unflinching portrayal of the brutality of slave life, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl stands alongside Frederick Douglass's classic autobiographies as one of the most significant slave narratives ever written.

Farah Jasmine Griffin is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American Studies at Columbia University in New York City.

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The Communist Manifesto

Author: Karl Marx

Critically and textually up-to-date, this new edition of the classic translation (Samuel Moore, 1888) features an introduction and notes by the eminent Marx scholar David McLellan, prefaces written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels subsequent to the original 1848 publication, and corrections of errors made in earlier versions. Regarded as one of the most influential political tracts ever written, The Communist Manifesto serves as the foundation document of the Marxist movement. This summary of the Marxist vision is an incisive account of the world-view Marx and Engels had evolved during their hectic intellectual and political collaboration of the previous few years.

Table of Contents:

	Marx and Engels : a brief chronology	50
	The Communist Manifesto	59
App. A	From Flora Tristan's Tour de France, September 1844	95
App. B	Letter from Engels to Marx, November-December 1846	97
App. C	Engels, draft of a communist confession of faith, 9 June 1847	104
App. D	Marx, "the communism of the Rheinischer Beobachter," September 1847	112
App. E	Communist Journal, No. 1, September 1847	125
App. F	Engels, "principles of communism," late October 1847	137
App. G	Letter from Engels to Marx, 23-24 November 1847	157
App. H	Engels, "on the history of the communist league," 1885	160
App. I	Engels, "the labour movement in America." : preface to the American edition of The condition of the working class in England, 26 January 1887	180
App. J	Engels, "notes on my journey through America and Canada," late September 1888	189
App. K	Engels, "impressions of a journey round America," late September 1888	192
App. L	Manifestoes	195