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ISBN: 0486115461 9780486115467 Year: 2001 Publisher: Mineola, N.Y. : ©2001 Dover Publications,
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"The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains among the few extant slave narratives written by a woman. This autobiographical account chronicles the remarkable odyssey of Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) whose dauntless spirit and faith carried her from a life of servitude and degradation in North Carolina to liberty and reunion with her children in the North. Written and published in 1861 after Jacobs' harrowing escape from a vile and predatory master, the memoir delivers a powerful and unflinching portrayal of the abuses and hypocrisy of the master-slave relationship. Jacobs writes frankly of the horrors she suffered as a slave, her eventual escape after several unsuccessful attempts, and her seven years in self-imposed exile, hiding in a coffin-like "garret" attached to her grandmother's porch." --
Enslaved persons --- African Americans --- Chowan County (N.C.) --- Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897. --- Slavery --- Slaves --- Women --- Enslaved women --- Social conditions. --- Slavery. --- Social conditions --- Jacobs, Harriet A. --- United States.
ISBN: 0674042654 9780674042650 0674006364 9780674006362 0674055640 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press
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Reiss uses P. T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the contours of race relations in the antebellum North. Barnum's first exhibit as a showman, Heth was an elderly enslaved woman said to be the 161-year-old former nurse of the infant George Washington. Seizing upon the novelty, the newly emerging commercial press turned her act--and especially her death--into one of the first media spectacles in American history.
Popular culture --- Women slaves --- Freak shows --- Whites --- African Americans in popular culture --- Racism in popular culture --- Death in popular culture --- Afro-Americans in popular culture --- Sideshows --- History --- Social aspects --- Race identity --- Barnum, P. T. --- Heth, Joice, --- Barnum, Phineas Taylor, --- Parn̲am, P. T., --- Barnam, P. T., --- Northeastern States --- Northeast (U.S.) --- Northeastern United States --- United States, Northeastern --- Race relations. --- Race relations --- Barnum, Phineas Taylor --- United States --- Biography --- 19th century --- Heth, Joice --- White persons --- Ethnology --- Caucasian race --- White people --- Enslaved women --- Women, Enslaved --- Enslaved persons
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