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Incidents in the life of a slave girl

"A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and of her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs' classic narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, tells firsthand of the horrors inflicted on slaves. In writing this extraordinary memoir, wh...

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Main Author: Jacobs, Harriet A. 1813-1897.
Other Authors: Painter, Nell Irvin., Jacobs, John S., 1815-1875.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Penguin Books, 2000.
Subjects:
Jacobs, Harriet A. > (Harriet Ann), > 1813-1897.
Jacobs, John S., > 1815-1875.
Slaves > United States > Biography.
Women slaves > United States > Biography.
Online Access: Contributor biographical information
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Childhood
  • II. The New Master and Mistress
  • III. The Slaves' New Year's Day
  • IV. The Slave Who Dared to Feel like a Man
  • V. The Trials of Girlhood
  • VI. The Jealous Mistress
  • VII. The Lover
  • VIII. What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North
  • IX. Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders
  • X.A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life
  • XI. The New Tie to Life
  • XII. Fear of Insurrection
  • XIII. The Church and Slavery
  • XIV. Another Link to Life
  • XV. Continued Persecutions
  • XVI. Scenes at the Plantation
  • XVII. The Flight
  • XVIII. Months of Peril
  • XIX. The Children Sold
  • XX. New Perils
  • XXI. The Loophole of Retreat
  • XXII. Christmas Festivities
  • XXIII. Still in Prison
  • XXIV. The Candidate for Congress
  • XXV. Competition in Cunning
  • XXVI. Important Era in My Brother's Life
  • XXVII. New Destination for the Children
  • XVIII Aunt Nancy
  • XXIX. Preparations for Escape
  • XXX. Northward Bound
  • XXXI. Incidents in Philadelphia
  • XXXII. The Meeting of Mother and Daughter
  • XXXIII. A Home Found
  • XXXIV. The Old Enemy Again
  • XXXV. Prejudice against Color
  • XXXVI. The Hairbreadth Escape
  • XXXVII. A Visit to England
  • XXXVIII. Renewed Invitations to Go South
  • XXXIX. The Confession
  • XL. The Fugitive Slave Law
  • XLI. Free at Last
  • - Appendix
  • - A TRUE TALE OF SLAVER. I. Some Account of My Early Die
  • II. A Further Account of My Family
  • III. My Uncle's Troubles
  • IV. My New Master's Plantation
  • V. My Master Goes to Washington
  • VI. Sensations of Freedom
  • VII. Cruel Treatment of Slaves.

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