In 1996 Cambridge University Press published Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: New Critical Essays. A title in the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture. This anthology presented a far-ranging compendium of literary and cultural scholarship on Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Edited by Deborah M. Garfield and Rafia Zafar, the volume's contributors included both established Jacobs scholars and emerging critics, their essays taking on a variety of subjects in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, treating representation, gender, resistance, and spirituality from differing angles, in the book's 306 pages. Charles White’s Wanted Poster Series #17 was reproduced on the cover of Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: New Critical Essays.