Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Jacobs, Harriet.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. - [Place of publication not identified] : Lightning Source Incorporated (Tier 3) : (c)2020. G&D Media, (c)2020. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface by the Author -- Introduction by the Editor -- One Childhood -- Two The New Master and Mistress -- Three The Slaves' New Year's Day -- Four The Slave Who Dared to Feel Like a Man -- Five The Trials of Girlhood -- Six The Jealous Mistress -- Seven The Lover -- Eight What Slaves Are Taught to Think of The North -- Nine Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders -- Ten A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life -- Eleven The New Tie to Life -- Twelve Fear of Insurrection -- Thirteen The Church and Slavery -- Fourteen Another Link to Life Fifteen Continued Persecutions -- Sixteen Scenes at the Plantation -- Seventeen The Flight -- Eighteen Months of Peril -- Nineteen The Children Sold -- Twenty New Perils -- Twenty-One The Loophole of Retreat -- Twenty-Two Christmas Festivities -- Twenty-Three Still in Prison -- Twenty-Four The Candidate for Congress -- Twenty-Five Competition in Cunning -- Twenty-Six Important Era in My Brother's Life -- Twenty-Seven New Destination for the Children -- Twenty-Eight Aunt Nancy -- Twenty-Nine Preparations for Escape -- Thirty Northward Bound -- Thirty-One Incidents in Philadelphia Thirty-Two The Meeting of Mother and Daughter -- Thirty-Three A Home Found -- Thirty-Four The Old Enemy Again -- Thirty-Five Prejudice Against Color -- Thirty-Six The Hairbreadth Escape -- Thirty-Seven A Visit to England -- Thirty-Eight Renewed Invitations to Go South -- Thirty-Nine The Confession -- Forty The Fugitive Slave Law -- Forty-One Free at Last -- Appendix
This powerful and unflinching memoir by young mother and fugitive slave, Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813 -1897), remains among the few remaining slave narratives written by a woman.
9781722524074
Jacobs, Harriet A. 1813-1897.
Slaves--United States--Biography.
Women slaves--United States--Biography.
Slavery--United States--Personal narratives.
Slaves--Social conditions.--United States
Electronic Books.
E444 / .I535 2020
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. - [Place of publication not identified] : Lightning Source Incorporated (Tier 3) : (c)2020. G&D Media, (c)2020. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface by the Author -- Introduction by the Editor -- One Childhood -- Two The New Master and Mistress -- Three The Slaves' New Year's Day -- Four The Slave Who Dared to Feel Like a Man -- Five The Trials of Girlhood -- Six The Jealous Mistress -- Seven The Lover -- Eight What Slaves Are Taught to Think of The North -- Nine Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders -- Ten A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life -- Eleven The New Tie to Life -- Twelve Fear of Insurrection -- Thirteen The Church and Slavery -- Fourteen Another Link to Life Fifteen Continued Persecutions -- Sixteen Scenes at the Plantation -- Seventeen The Flight -- Eighteen Months of Peril -- Nineteen The Children Sold -- Twenty New Perils -- Twenty-One The Loophole of Retreat -- Twenty-Two Christmas Festivities -- Twenty-Three Still in Prison -- Twenty-Four The Candidate for Congress -- Twenty-Five Competition in Cunning -- Twenty-Six Important Era in My Brother's Life -- Twenty-Seven New Destination for the Children -- Twenty-Eight Aunt Nancy -- Twenty-Nine Preparations for Escape -- Thirty Northward Bound -- Thirty-One Incidents in Philadelphia Thirty-Two The Meeting of Mother and Daughter -- Thirty-Three A Home Found -- Thirty-Four The Old Enemy Again -- Thirty-Five Prejudice Against Color -- Thirty-Six The Hairbreadth Escape -- Thirty-Seven A Visit to England -- Thirty-Eight Renewed Invitations to Go South -- Thirty-Nine The Confession -- Forty The Fugitive Slave Law -- Forty-One Free at Last -- Appendix
This powerful and unflinching memoir by young mother and fugitive slave, Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813 -1897), remains among the few remaining slave narratives written by a woman.
9781722524074
Jacobs, Harriet A. 1813-1897.
Slaves--United States--Biography.
Women slaves--United States--Biography.
Slavery--United States--Personal narratives.
Slaves--Social conditions.--United States
Electronic Books.
E444 / .I535 2020