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Feb 1, 2004 · The early pages set the tone for a story that deeply examines the institutionalized injustices faced by enslaved women, highlighting the struggle for personal dignity and freedom amidst a life fraught with suffering and exploitation.
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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 · 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." Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-376) and index.
Sep 27, 2011 · Incidents in the life of a slave girl. 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.
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.
Harriet Jacobs 1 . seems you are trying to get up another intrigue. Your new paramour came to me, and ofered to buy you; but you may be assured you will not succeed.
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Jul 1, 2000 · A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation, Harriet Jacobs's classic narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and...
