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Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl, Written By Herself
Author
Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897; Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880 [Editor]
Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl, Written By Herself
A young enslaved woman recounts her experiences and struggles against the cruel treatment she faced on a plantation in 19th century America.
- Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl.
- Contents.
- Preface By The Author
- Introduction By The Editor
- I. Childhood
- Ii. The New Master And Mistress.
- Iii. The Slaves’ New Year’s Day.
- Iv. The Slave Who Dared To Feel Like A Man.
- V. The Trials Of Girlhood.
- Vi. The Jealous Mistress.
- Vii. The Lover.
- Viii. What Slaves Are Taught To Think Of The North.
- Ix. Sketches Of Neighboring Slaveholders.
- X. A Perilous Passage In The Slave Girl’s Life.
- Xi. The New Tie To Life.
- Xii. Fear Of Insurrection.
- Xiii. The Church And Slavery.
- Xiv. Another Link To Life.
- Xv. Continued Persecutions.
- Xvi. Scenes At The Plantation.
- Xvii. The Flight.
- Xviii. Months Of Peril.
- Xix. The Children Sold.
- Xx. New Perils.
- Xxi. The Loophole Of Retreat.
- Xxii. Christmas Festivities.
- Xxiii. Still In Prison.
- Xxiv. The Candidate For Congress.
- Xxv. Competition In Cunning.
- Xxvi. Important Era In My Brother’s Life.
- Xxvii. New Destination For The Children.
- Xxviii. Aunt Nancy.
- Xxix. Preparations For Escape.
- Xxx. Northward Bound.
- Xxxi. Incidents In Philadelphia.
- Xxxii. The Meeting Of Mother And Daughter.
- Xxxiii. A Home Found.
- Xxxiv. The Old Enemy Again.
- Xxxv. Prejudice Against Color.
- Xxxvi. The Hairbreadth Escape.
- Xxxvii. A Visit To England
- Xxxviii. Renewed Invitations To Go South.
- Xxxix. The Confession.
- Xl. The Fugitive Slave Law.
- Xli. Free At Last.
- Appendix.
Author
Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897; Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880 [Editor]