Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl - Softcover

Jacobs, Harriet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451527526 ISBN 13: 9780451527523

Publisher: Signet Classics, 2009

Synopsis

The author, the child of mulatto parents, recounts her childhood in slavery, the abuse she suffered, her escape to the North, and the help she received from both blacks and whites, and documents the degradation and injustices of slavery. Reprint.

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Review

A viable alternative to male save narratives. The specific problems faced by female slaves are clearly portrayed. (Ray Doyle, West Chester Univ.)

From the Back Cover

These two slave narratives expand our knowledge of the differing ways males and females coped with enslavement and later ordeals in flight. This popularly–priced anthology contains the often taught Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and the recently discovered A True Tale of Slavery by John S. Jacobs, her younger brother, now reprinted for the first time.

After Harriet s owner, a physician, repeatedly abused her, she escaped his sexual advances for a time by entering into a relationship with a local attorney. Her owner continued to harass her, and she sought refuge in a crawlspace where she lived in hiding. After her escape to the North, she published her narrative.

John S. Jacobs walked away as he put it, from his owner, a congressman. He sailed on a whaling ship and educated himself. He then became a paid agent of the Anti–Slavery Society, made a lecturing trip with Frederick Douglass, and finally settled in London, where he remained until it was safe for a fugitive to return to the North. He wrote his story for a London Sunday school journal where it was published in 1861.

About this edition

• Publisher: Signet Classics
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0451527526
• ISBN 13: 9780451527523
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 256