Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

by Jacobs, Harriet; Brent, L.; Child, Lydia Maria Francis

• ISBN13: 9780156443500
• ISBN10: 0156443503
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1973-03-21
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

An authentic autobiographical account of slave life in the South from the 1820s to the 1840s. To escape sexual exploitation by her master, Brent ran away and hid in an attic crawl space that became her home for seven years of unbelievable physical hardship. Edited by L. Maria Child; Introduction by Walter Teller.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Walter Teller
Introduction	xi
L. Maria Child
Preface	xiii
Linda Brent
Childhood	3	(4)
The New Master and Mistress	7	(6)
The Slaves' New Year's Day	13	(2)
The Slave Who Dared to Feel Like a Man	15	(11)
The Trials of Girlhood	26	(3)
The Jealous Mistress	29	(7)
The Lover	36	(6)
What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North	42	(3)
Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders	45	(8)
A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life	53	(6)
The New Tie to Life	59	(5)
Fear of Insurrection	64	(5)
The Church and Slavery	69	(9)
Another Link to Life	78	(3)
Continued Persecutions	81	(6)
Scenes at the Plantation	87	(10)
The Flight	97	(3)
Months of Peril	100	(7)
The Children Sold	107	(5)
New Perils	112	(5)
The Loophole of Retreat	117	(4)
Christmas Festivities	121	(2)
Still in Prison	123	(4)
The Candidate for Congress	127	(3)
Competition in Cunning	130	(5)
Important Era in My Brother's Life	135	(4)
New Destination for the Children	139	(7)
Aunt Nancy	146	(5)
Preparations for Escape	151	(9)
Northward Bound	160	(4)
Incidents in Philadelphia	164	(5)
The Meeting of Mother and Daughter	169	(3)
A Home Found	172	(3)
The Old Enemy Again	175	(4)
Prejudice Against Color	179	(3)
The Hairbreadth Escape	182	(5)
A Visit to England	187	(3)
Renewed Invitations to Go South	190	(2)
The Confession	192	(2)
The Fugitive Slave Law	194	(6)
Free at Last	200	(9)
Appendix	209