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  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

    by Harriet Jacobs ...
    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself is an autobiography by Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive slave, published in 1861 by L. Maria Child, who edited the book for its author. Jacobs used the pseudonym Linda Brent. The book documents Jacobs's life as a slave and how she gained freedom for herself and for her children. Jacobs contributed to the genre of slave narrative by ... Read more

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    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

    by Harriet A. Jacobs ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Maxwell G ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 34 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A rare and courageous voice from history, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is Harriet Jacobs’s unforgettable firsthand account of her struggle for freedom. Written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, Jacobs exposes the harsh realities faced by enslaved women—forced labor, constant danger, and the brutal denial of dignity. Yet within her story also ... Read more

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    Incidents in The Life of a Slave Girl

    by Harriet Jacobs ...
    Narrated by Geoffrey Giuliano and The Icon Players ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 20 min

    Harriet Jacobs' autobiography details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to freedom in the north, and her ensuing struggles to free her children. The narrative was partly serialized in the New York Tribune, but was discontinued because Jacobs' depictions of the sexual abuse of female slaves were considered too shocking. It was published in book form in 1861.Produced by Devin ... Read more

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  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself

    by Harriet A. Jacobs ...
    The book chronicles Jacobs's life from her childhood in slavery in North Carolina to her eventual escape to freedom. She details her experiences with her enslaver, Dr. Flint, who subjected her to relentless sexual harassment, and her efforts to protect her children from the horrors of slavery. Jacobs's narrative is marked by her deep emotional and psychological struggles, as she grapples with her ... Read more

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  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    As Written by Herself

    by Harriet Jacobs ...
    "I want to add my testimony to that of abler pens to convince the people of the Free States what slavery really is. Only by experience can anyone realize how deep, and dark, and foul is that pit of abominations."Of the few slave narratives written by a woman, Harriet Jacobs's ''Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself'' bears witness to the female experience of slavery.Manifesting ... Read more

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  • Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl

    by Harriet Jacobs ...
    Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in North Carolina in 1813. A bright and creative young lady, she faced tremendous hardship as a female slave. She had the misfortune of becoming the de facto slave of her 5 year old new mistress’s father, who pursued her relentlessly. Her new master’s constant advances became so unbearable that she hid in her mother’s attic for 7 years until she seized an ... Read more

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  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

    by Harriet A. Jacobs ...
    In what has become a landmark of American history and literature, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl recounts the incredible but true story of Harriet Jacobs, born a slave in North Carolina in 1813. Her tale gains its importance from her descriptions, in great and painful detail, of the sexual exploitation that daily haunted her life—and the life of every other black female slave.As a child, ... Read more

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  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    Written by Herself

    by Harriet Jacobs, Nell Irvin Painter ...
    One of the central firsthand accounts of slavery in AmericaA haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation, Harriet Jacobs's classic narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published pseduonymously in 1861, tells firsthand of the horrors inflicted on slaves. In writing this extraordinary memoir, which culminates in the seven ... Read more

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  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    by Harriet Jacobs ...
    Tormented by her master, a young mother plots a daring escape, in this courageous and captivating slave narrativeWhen her mother dies, six-year-old slave girl Linda Brent is sent to the big house, where she grows up serving a gentle mistress who teaches her to read and write. But the mistress's death brings about a sudden and terrible change in Linda's fortunes.Her lecherous new master torments ... Read more

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  • The Most Powerful Voices (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. 10 Influential Slave Narratives

    by Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Solomon Northup, Olaudah Equino, Mary Prince, Josiah Henson, Booker T. Washington, Julian Ashmere0 ...
    The Most Powerful Voices gathers foundational testimonies of enslavement, resistance, faith, self-fashioning, and freedom into a compelling panorama of Black Atlantic literature. Moving across autobiography, oratory, spiritual reflection, political argument, and reformist prose, the collection situates personal narrative within the larger struggle against slavery and racial domination. Its power ... Read more

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  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

    by Harriet A. Jacobs ...
    Series series African Library
    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs is a seminal text in African American literature in its exploration of the slave experience from a female point of view. The work offers an intimate and direct account of how oppression, racism, and sexism shaped the life of one individual but can be extrapolated to encompass the experiences of enslaved African Americans as a whole. ... Read more

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  • Harriet Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    by Harriet Jacobs ...
    Series series Women Writers of the World
    "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" was one of the several works written by Harriet Jacobs in her lifetime and was published in 1861. This work is a powerful and revealing autobiography in which Jacobs narrates her journey from slavery to freedom, offering an intimate and profound view of her life and the conditions faced by enslaved women in the United States. Over time, various biographies ... Read more

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