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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 ...
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. Being half-white and prettier than most, Harriet Jacobs’ natural place would have been up at the ...
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.
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.
Harriet Jacobs was a remarkable woman who was born into slavery in 1813 in Edenton, North Carolina, and died free in Washington, D.C., at the age of eighty-four.
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Nov 21, 2019 · Harriet Jacobs (February 11, 1813-March 7, 1897), who was enslaved from birth, endured sexual abuse for years before successfully escaping to the North. She later wrote about her experiences in the 1861 book " Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ," one of the few slave narratives written by a Black woman.
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