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9780140437959

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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  • ISBN13:

    9780140437959

  • ISBN10:

    0140437959

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-07-01
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics

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Summary

Not only one of the last of over one hundred slave narratives published separately before the Civil War, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) is also one of the few existing narratives written by a woman. It offers a unique perspective on the complex plight of the black woman as slave and as writer. In a story that merges the conventions of the slave narrative with the techniques of the sentimental novel, Harriet Jacobs describes her efforts to fight off the advances of her master, her eventual liaison with another white man (the father of two of her children), and her ultimately successful struggle for freedom. Jacobs' account of her experiences, and her search for her own voice, prefigure the literary and ideological concerns of generations of African-American women writers to come.

Author Biography

Nell Irvin Painter is the author of Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol and Standing at Armageddon, the United States, 1877-1919, The Narrative of Hosea Hudson and Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction. She is Edwards Professor of History at Princeton University, where she currently heads the program in African-American Studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Suggestions for Further Reading
A Note on the Text
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Preface by the Author
Introduction by the Editor
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 Passage 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 Invitations to Go South
The Confession
The Fugitive Slave Law
Free at Last
A True Tale of Slavery
Some Account of My Early Life
A Further Account of My Family, and of My New Master
My Uncle's Troubles - My Further Experience of the Doctor, and Our Parting
My New Master's Plantation - My Medical Practice Among the Slaves - My Sister's Hiding-Place
My Master Goes to Washington as Member of Congress - He Is Engaged to Be Married - Wedding Trip to Chicago - Canada - New York - My Escape from Slavery
Sensations of Freedom - Self-Education - A Whaling Voyage - I Meet My Sister, and Hear from Her About My Friends at Edenton - The Fugitive Slave Bill
Cruel Treatment of Slaves - The Fugitive Slave Law - Slavery Opposed to Natural Rights and to Christianity
Explanatory Notes
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