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   Aug 23, 2011 · A slave-girl able to read and write in 1820’s North Carolina was something rare indeed. For this girl to go on and produce a book rated by many as the supreme slave-memoir was an unheard-of achievement. Being half-white and prettier than most, Harriet Jacobs’ natural place would have been up at the mansion, as one of the favoured house-slaves.

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   Feb 1, 2004 · "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself" by Harriet A. Jacobs is an autobiographical account written in the mid-19th century. The book explores the harrowing experiences of a young enslaved girl named Linda Brent, who navigates the complexities of slavery, gender, and personal autonomy within a brutal system designed to ...

   • Author: Harriet A. Jacobs
   • Editor: Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880

   • Publish Year: 1861

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   Jun 25, 2022 · Harriet Jacobs : a life. Provides a detailed study of the life of the nineteenth-century writer, covering her life under slavery, as a fugitive slave, and in the post-Civil War years, and her writing of the slave narrative "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."

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   Harriet Jacobs was an American abolitionist and autobiographer who crafted her own experiences into Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861), an eloquent and uncompromising slave narrative.

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   Oct 18, 2011 · Harriet Jacobs : a life. by. Yellin, Jean Fagan. Publication date. 2004. Topics. Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897, Slaves, Women slaves, African American women authors, African American women social reformers. Publisher.

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   2 Harriet Jacobs them the time that intervened between her sale and the gathering up of his human stock. Such a favor was rarely granted. It saved the trader the expense of board and jail fees, and though the amount was small, it was a weighty consideration in a slave-trader’s mind. Dr. Flint always had an aversion to meeting slaves

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   Who is Harriet Jacobs?

   • Harriet Ann Brent Jacobs, better known as simply Harriet Jacobs, was the author of one of the most famous American slave narratives, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, published in 1861. She was born in 1813 in Edenton, North Carolina.

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   Why did Harriet Jacobs write an autobiography?

   • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl opens with an introduction in which the author, Harriet Jacobs, states her reasons for writing an autobiography. Her story is painful, and she would rather have kept it private, but she feels that making it public may help the anti-slavery movement.

   Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Full Book Summary

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   When did Harriet Jacobs die?

   • After several trips south and one abroad to England, Jacobs reestablished herself as a relief worker in Washington, D.C. in the 1880s and died there on March 7, 1897. Harriet Jacobs's autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), is the most widely-read female antebellum slave narrative.

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   What is the Harriet Jacobs papers project?

   • The Harriet Jacobs Papers Project is organizing these items into a two-volume documentary edition of papers by and about the 19th-century African-American author, abolitionist, and reformer Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897), to be published by the University of North Carolina Press.

   Harriet Jacobs: Selected Writings and Correspondence Documents

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8. english.hku.hk › staff › kjohnsonIncidents in the life of a slave girl - University of Hong Kong

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   Incidents in the life of a slave girl. This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world’s books discoverable online. It has survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.