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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

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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