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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 ...
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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 ...
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."
Harriet Jacobs (born 1813, Edenton, North Carolina, U.S.—died March 7, 1897, Washington, D.C.) 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.
Feb 1, 2006 · The literary historian Jean Fagan Yellin has produced a stunning biography of the nineteenth-century African American writer, activist, and former slave Harriet Jacobs, capping off a career commitment to this important subject.
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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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.
