Harriet Jacobs in Cambridge Elements Series

This is an important contribution to the history of women philosophers. Harriet Jacob’s Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl has not been analysed philosophically before, and it is clear that such an analysis was both needed and fruitful. Coffee shows how Incidents makes philosophical points about how freedom, though equally desirable for all, is pursued differently by the enslaved and in particular by enslaved women than it is by white men. 
Coffee offers an excellent analysis of the work, its context and philosophical relevance. 
 
This element is available to download for free until 17 November.