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Incidents in the life of a slave girl
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ISBN: 1722503025 1722524073 9781722524074 Year: 2020 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : G&D Media,

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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. The book was published in 1861 after Jacobs harrowing escape from a wicked and predatory master, under the pseudonym Linda Brent since having her true identity revealed would have jeopardized her freedom under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Jacobs describes her life as a young slave in North Carolina as relatively idyllic until her mother's death when her mistress bequeathed her to a relative. She soon discovers the horror of her position and writes candidly of the struggles, sexual abuse, and fight for survival that female slaves faced on plantations, as well as the hypocrisy of the master-slave relationship. She recounts women's efforts to practice motherhood and protect their children who might be sold away at any time. The book documents her life of servitude, her attempts to escape, and how she finally gained freedom to be reunited with her children in the North where she became an abolitionist speaker and reformer. This remarkable odyssey of her struggle for self-preservation and freedom was a passionate appeal to white Northern women as she sought to expand their knowledge and influence their thoughts about slavery as an institution. While overshadowed by the breakout of the Civil War, it has since been touted as one of the first important slave narratives written from the female perspective.


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Resistance in Harriet Jacobs's "Incidents in the life of a slave girl, written by herself"

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Incidents in the life of a slave girl: written by herself
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ISBN: 0674002784 Year: 2000 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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Incidents in the life of a slave girl
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ISBN: 0195052439 Year: 1990 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Oxford university press

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Incidents in the life of a slave girl
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ISBN: 0191019801 0191919934 0191019798 Year: 2020 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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Harriet Jacobs's slave narrative is remarkable for its candid exposure of the sexual abuse suffered by slaves at the hands of their owners. Her sufferings, and eventual escape to the North, are described in vivid detail.


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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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ISBN: 1101657340 Year: 2000 Publisher: New York, NY : Signet Classics,

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Incidents in the life of a slave girl : written by herself
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ISBN: 0674447468 Year: 1987 Publisher: Cambridge London Harvard University Press

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Incidents in the life of a slave girl
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ISBN: 0156443503 Year: 1983 Publisher: San Diego (Calif.): Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl : The Givens Collection.
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ISBN: 1451685696 1451604238 Year: 2009 Publisher: Riverside : Washington Square Press,

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Incidents in the life of a slave girl
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ISBN: 1504034651 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York : Open Road,

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