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Slaves --- -Slaves --- -Biography --- Social conditions --- Jacobs, Harriet A.

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Enslaved persons --- Enslaved women --- Esclaves --- Femmes esclaves --- Biographies --- Biographie --- Jacobs, Harriet A.

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After hiding in her grandmother's attic for seven years, Harriet Ann Jacobs was finally able to escape servitude-and her master's sexual abuse-when she fled to the North. Once there, she became a very active abolitionist, and her correspondence with Harriet Beecher Stowe inspired her to write Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl about her years as an enslaved person. She published the narrative in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, and the book was written as a novel with fictionalized characters to protect Jacobs from retribution by her former owners. (Dr. Flint, i.e., the real Dr. James Norcom, is Linda Brent's master in the novel.) The story emphasized certain negative aspects of slavery--especially the struggles of female slaves under sexually abusive masters, cruel mistresses, and the sale of their children--in order to play on the sympathies of white middle-class women in the North.

Slaves' writings, American. --- Enslaved persons --- Women slaves --- Jacobs, Harriet A. --- Enslaved persons' writings, American. --- Enslaved women

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Harriet Jacobs, today perhaps the single-most read and studied black American woman of the nineteenth century, has not until recently enjoyed sustained, scholarly analysis. This anthology presents a far-ranging compendium of literary and cultural scholarship which will take its place as the primary resource for students and teachers of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The contributors include both established Jacobs scholars such as Jean Fagan Yellin (biographer and editor of the annotated edition of Incidents), Frances Smith Foster, Donald Gibson, and emerging critics Sandra Gunning, P. Gabrielle Foreman, and Anita Goldman. The essays take on a variety of subjects in Incidents, treating representation, gender, resistance, and spirituality from differing angles. The chapters contextualise both the historical figure of Harriet Jacobs and her autobiography as a created work of art; all endeavour to be accessible to a heterogeneous readership.

Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Slaves --- Women slaves --- Biography --- History and criticism. --- Jacobs, Harriet A. --- Slave women --- Women, Enslaved --- Enslaved persons --- JACOBS (HARRIET ANN), 1813-1897 --- ESCLAVES --- FEMMES ESCLAVES --- ETATS-UNIS --- BIOGRAPHIE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- Enslaved women

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American literature --- Home in literature. --- Women and literature. --- Slavery in literature --- Ecrits de femmes américains --- Foyer dans la littérature --- Femmes et littérature --- Esclavage dans la littérature --- Women authors --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Histoire et critique --- Théorie, etc --- Jacobs, Harriet A. --- Stoddard, Elizabeth, --- Butler, Octavia E. --- Robinson, Marilynne. --- First person narrative. --- History and criticism. --- Ecrits de femmes américains --- Foyer dans la littérature --- Femmes et littérature --- Esclavage dans la littérature --- Théorie, etc --- American literature - Women authors - History and criticism. --- Litterature americaine --- 19e-20e siecles --- Critique et interpretation --- Femmes ecrivains