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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as...
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Aug 23, 2011 · 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. But she rejected the sexual advances of her owner, and was forced into hiding in a tiny attic space in her family’s wooden shack for an incredible seven years, while they put it about that she had ...
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 ...
- Harriet A. Jacobs
- Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880
- 1861
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."
Jun 24, 2008 · Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to freedom in the north, and her ensuing struggles to free her children.
In our first History Café program of 2021, Dr. Tiya Miles discusses her work on the life of writer and abolitionist Harriet Jacobs. For the Spring 2021 semes...
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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.