About this nonfiction
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl : Written by Herself by Harriet A. Jacobs is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
As Linda Brent, The Book's Heroine And Narrator, Harriet Jacobs Recounts The History Of Her Family And Recalls The Degradation Of Slavery, Especially The Sexual Oppression She Experienced As A Slave Woman. Childhood -- The New Master And Mistress -- The Slaves' New Year's Day -- The Slave Who Dared To Feel Like A Man -- The Trials Of Girlhood -- The Jealous Mistress -- The Lover -- What Slaves Are Taught To Think Of The North -- Sketches Of Neighboring Slaveholders -- A Perilous Passaage In The Slave Girl's Life -- The New Tie To Life -- Fear Of Insurrection -- The Church And Slavery -- Another Link To Life -- Continued Persecutions -- Scenes At The Plantation -- The Flight -- Months Of Peril -- The Children Sold -- New Perils -- The Loophole Of Retreat -- Christmas Festivities -- Still In Prison -- The Candidate For Congress -- Competition In Cunning -- Important Era In My Brother's Life -- New Destination For The Children -- Aunt Nancy -- Preparations For Escape -- Northward Bound -- Incidents In Philadelphia -- The Meeting Of Mother And Daughter -- A Home Found -- The Old Enemy Again -- Prejudice Against Color -- The Hairbreadth Escape -- A Visit To England -- Renewed Invitation
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Harriet A. Jacobs
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 1987
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674002715
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Social Science, Fiction, Memoir