Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

By:

Jacobs, Harriet [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781722524074

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

E444 .I535 2020

Online resources:

Click to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password

Available additional physical forms:

Contents:

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

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-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

Subject: 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.

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	E444.17 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		on1158460486

Browsing G. Allen Fleece Library shelves, Shelving location: ONLINE, Collection: Non-fiction Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)

Previous								Next
Previous	E444 Narrative of William W. Brown, anAmerican slave /written by himself, William Wells Brown.	E444 Twelve years a slave : narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana.	E444 Fifty years in chains, or, The life of an American slave /by Charles Ball.	E444.17 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.	E444.82 Harriet, the Moses of her people /by Sarah Hopkins Bradford.	E445.3 Gleanings of freedom : free and slave labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860 /	E445.4 Dark work : the business of slavery in Rhode Island /	Next

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.

https://lib.ciu.edu/copyright-request-form

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.