Moses Roper and Harriet Jacobs: Special Edition - Softcover

Roper, Moses; Jacobs, Harriet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1945510064 ISBN 13: 9781945510069

Publisher: Standish Press, 2021

Synopsis

This special edition of the celebrated autobiographies of Moses Roper and Harriet Jacobs bring together the lives of two incredible individuals that made a difference in American history simply because they refused to give up despite how impossible their dreams seemed to be. Moses Roper and Harriet Jacobs were born in the waning days of slavery in the United States and though their experiences read like a script for a movie, their stories are no different than the thousands that were never acknowledged publicly during the almost three centuries that slavery blighted the history of America. Published in one volume for the first time and edited with additional biographical material not published previously.

About this title

About the Authors

Moses Roper is best known for his best-selling memoir about his enslavement during his youth during the early part of the nineteenth century in the southern United States. He later became an orator following his escape from American slavery as well as an abolitionist. Roper's influential narrative has remained an important work in American history over a century after its initial publication. Moses Roper died in April 1891.

Harriet Jacobs was born on February 1813 in North Carolina. Though born a slave, she was able to learn to read and write, and eventually escaped, finding refuge in the household of writer Nathaniel Parker Willis. While living with the Willis family, Jacobs began composing a memoir in her free time. It was originally turned down by several publishers but eventually became one of the most widely read books of its time. Harriet Jacobs died on March 1897.

Gary Brin was born in 1965 and has lived in the United States Virgin Islands, Hawaii and California. He has edited numerous original literary works over the years-both new and revised. In 2019 he established Standish Press to bring forth interesting fictional and historical material usually ignored by mainstream publishers because of specific views or content. In addition to publishing books, he also created the Nancy Hanks Lincoln Public Library (named after the mother of Abraham Lincoln) in 2014 to make available hard-to-find books to a worldwide audience.

Edition details

• Publisher: Standish Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1945510064
• ISBN 13: 9781945510069
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Brin Gary