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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (2001) (edit title/settings)

by Harriet A. Jacobs (Author) (edit contributors)

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This autobiographical account by a former slave is one of the few extact narratives written by a woman. Written and published in 1861, it delivers a powerful, unflinching portrayal of the brutality of slave life. Jacobs speaks frankly of her master's abuse and her eventual escape, in an... read more

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This authentic account was originally published in 1861 by Linda Brent, just before the Civil War began. In truth, the actual events took place many years before, and the story's author was harriet Jacobs, who felt compelled to write under a pseudonym and decades after the fact to protect... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

This authentic account was originally published in 1861 by Linda Brent, just before the Civil War began. In truth, the actual events took place many years before, and the story's author was harriet Jacobs, who felt compelled to write under a pseudonym and decades after the fact to protect those who loved and shielded her. The account is harrowing in its portrayal of Jacob's life as a female slave -- the degradation and sexual oppression, her master's determination to maker her his concubine, his jealous wife, the white man who fathered her children -- but there is also grace and salvation in the form of Jackob's grandmother who hid her in a tiny garret for seven years, and the blacks and whites who secured Jacob's eventual passage north and made it possible to tell her story.
A difficult, gripping personal account of U.S. history and the major antebellum autobiography of an African-American woman, readers everywhere should be grateful that stories such as Jackob's survive.

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I WAS BORN a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

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1. Childhood
2. The New Master and Mistress
3. The Slaves' New Year's Day
4. Thge Slave who Dared to Feel Like a Man
5. The Trials of Girlhood
6. The Jealous Mistress
7. The Lover
8. What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North
9. Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders
10. A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life
11. The New Tie to Life
12. Fear of Insurrection
13. The Church and Slavery
14. Another Link to LIfe
15. Continued Persecutions
16. Scenes at the Plantation
17. The Flight
18. Mothers of Peril
19. The Children Sold
20. New Perils
21. The Loophole of Retreat
22. Christmas Festivities
23. Still in Prison
24. The Candidate for Congress
25. Competition in Cunning
26. Important Era in My Brother's Life
27. New Destination for the Children
28. Aunt Nancy
29. Preparations for Escape
30. Northward Bound
31. Incidents in Phildelphia
32. The Meeting of Mother and Daughter
33. A Home Found
34. TheOld Enemy Again
35. Prejudice Against Color
36. The Hairbreadth Escape
37. A Visit to England
38. Renewed Invitations to Go South
39. The Confession
40. The Fugitive Slave Law
41. Free at Last

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Dover Publications
Country: USA
Publication Date: November 9, 2001
ISBN: 978-0486419312
Page Count: 176 pages

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