Whispers of Cruel Wrongs - The Correspondence of Louisa Jacobs and Her Circle, 1879-1911

Harriet Jacobs's autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, includes her heartbreaking account of parting with her young daughter, Louisa. Here, Mary Maillard follows the thread of the Jacobs family lineage by revealing the communications of Louisa Jacobs and her close friends in more than seventy previously unidentified letters.