Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,9780486419312

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780486419312
ISBN10: 0486419312
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-11-09
Publisher(s): Dover Publications
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Summary

This autobiographical account by a former slave is one of the few extant narratives written by a woman. Written and published in 1861, it delivers a powerful portrayal of the brutality of slave life. Jacobs speaks frankly of her master's abuse and her eventual escape, in a tale of dauntless spirit and faith.

Table of Contents

Childhood
8(3)
The New Master and Mistress
11(5)
The Slaves' New Year's Day
16(1)
The Slave Who Dared to Feel Like a Man
17(9)
The Trials of Girlhood
26(2)
The Jealous Mistress
28(5)
The Lover
33(6)
What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North
39(2)
Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders
41(6)
A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life
47(4)
The New Tie to Life
51(4)
Fear of Insurrection
55(4)
The Church and Slavery
59(6)
Another Link to Life
65(3)
Continued Persecutions
68(5)
Scenes at the Plantation
73(7)
The Flight
80(3)
Months of Peril
83(5)
The Children Sold
88(4)
New Perils
92(3)
The Loophole of Retreat
95(3)
Christmas Festivities
98(2)
Still in Prison
100(3)
The Candidate for Congress
103(2)
Competition in Cunning
105(4)
Important Era in My Brother's Life
109(4)
New Destination for the Children
113(5)
Aunt Nancy
118(4)
Preparations for Escape
122(7)
Northward Bound
129(3)
Incidents in Philadelphia
132(3)
The Meeting of Mother and Daughter
135(3)
A Home Found
138(2)
The Old Enemy Again
140(3)
Prejudice Against Color
143(2)
The Hairbreadth Escape
145(4)
A Visit to England
149(2)
Renewed Invitations to go South
151(2)
The Confession
153(1)
The Fugitive Slave Law
154(5)
Free at Last
159(6)
Appendix 165

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