| Description |
xxxiii, 306 pages : portrait ; 24 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
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Women lcdgt |
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Slaves lcsh |
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eth African Americans lcdgt |
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nat Americans lcdgt |
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Nineteenth century lcsh |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-292) and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897.
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Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography.
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Enslaved women -- United States -- Biography.
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Slave narratives.
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Slavery -- United States -- Personal narratives.
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Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897 (OCoLC)fst00009247
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Enslaved women (OCoLC)fst01178532
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Slavery (OCoLC)fst01120426
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Slave narratives (OCoLC)fst01120401
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Enslaved persons (OCoLC)fst01120522
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Enslaved persons -- Social conditions
(OCoLC)fst01120577
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United States (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Personal narratives (OCoLC)fst01423843
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Autobiographies (OCoLC)fst01919894
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Biographies (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Autobiographies.
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| Added Author |
Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880, editor. Editor.
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Yellin, Jean Fagan, editor, writer of introduction. Editor. win
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| Added Title |
Life of a slave girl.
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| ISBN |
067444745X (alk. paper) |
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9780674447455 (alk. paper) |
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0674447468 (paperback ; alk. paper) |
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9780674447462 (paperback ; alk. paper) |
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