NMLP P-035664 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Jacobs · Published for the author (Boston) · 1861

Boston: Published for the Author, 1861' — the phrase 'Published for the Author' signals that Jacobs financed the printing herself after buying the stereotype plates from the bankrupt firm of Thayer and Eldridge, which had set the type in 1860 but never issued the book before its collapse

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035664 for "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035664, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).