CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
4. PROLOGUE 1
5. CHAPTER 1 Introduction 11
6. CHAPTER 2 The Family Romances of Lydia Maria Child and Harriet Beecher Stowe 33
7. CHAPTER 3 " We Could Have Told Them a Different Story!": Harriet Jacobs, John S. Jacobs, and the Rupture of Memory 61
8. CHAPTER 4 Objects of Mourning in Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes 93
9. CHAPTER 5 Enduring Memory: Kate Drumgoold and Julia A. J. Foote 133
10. EPILOGUE 175
11. NOTES 185
12. WORKS CITED 213
13. INDEX 227