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Author Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897.

Title Incidents in the life of a slave girl [Hoopla electronic resource].

Publication Info. [United States] : GENERAL PRESS, 2020.
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Series Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers ; 9
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Summary Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a powerful and compelling story of Harriet Jacobs whose dauntless spirit and faith carried her from a life of servitude and degradation in North Carolina to liberty and reunion with her children in the North. This is one of the few slave narratives written by a woman. Jacobs writes frankly of the horrors she suffered as a slave, her eventual escape after several unsuccessful attempts, and her seven years in self-imposed exile, hiding in a coffin-like 'garret' attached to her grandmother's porch. Slavery is a terrible thing, but it is far more terrible and harrowing for women than for men. Harriet Jacobs was owned by a brutal master who beat his slaves regularly and subjected them to indignations that were far worse. Jacobs eventually escaped her master and moved to a northern state. Though she was unable to take her children with her at the time they were later reunited.
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Subject Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897.
Slaves -- United States -- Biography.
Enslaved women -- United States -- Biography.
Feminism -- United States -- History -- Sources.
Slavery -- United States -- Social conditions.
Enslaved women -- Biography.
Slavery -- United States -- Personal narratives.
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ISBN 9789389716979 (electronic bk.)
9389716977 (electronic bk.)
Music No. MWT14382052
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