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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Written by Herself
Av Harriet Jacobs, Nell Irving Painter
Häftad, 2005
236 kr
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A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs' narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written documenting the traumas and horrors of slavery in the antebellum …
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Av Harriet Jacobs, R. J. Ellis
Häftad, 2015
109 kr
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'The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.'Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordinary slave narratives. First published pseudonymously in 1861, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl …
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Häftad, 2001
79 kr
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This autobiographical account by a former slave is one of the few extant narratives written by a woman. Written and published in 1861, it delivers a powerful portrayal of the brutality of slave life. Jacobs speaks frankly of her master's abuse and her eventual escape, in a tale of dauntless spirit …
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Av Harriet Jacobs, Lydia Marie Child
Häftad, 1973
151 kr
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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 …
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Av Harriet Jacobs, R. J. Ellis
E-bok, 2015
98 kr
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''The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.'' Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordinary slave narratives. First published pseudonymously in 1861, Incidents in the Life of a Slave …
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Av Harriet Jacobs, R. J. Ellis
E-bok, 2015
98 kr
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''The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.'' Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordinary slave narratives. First published pseudonymously in 1861, Incidents in the Life of a Slave …
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Inbunden, 1988
1367 kr
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Published in 1861, this book is one of the last of many slave narratives published before the Civil War; it is also one of the few existing narratives written by a woman. As such it offers a unique perspective on the complex plight of the black woman as slave and as writer. Merging the conventions …
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Häftad, 1991
321 kr
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One of hundreds of slave narratives published just before the Civil War, this account is unique in that it is written by a woman. This offers a different, perhaps more realistic, perspective on slave experience than that presented in the more typical `heroic' male narrative. The work is notable for …
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Av Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass
E-bok, 2011
64 kr
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Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah Commentary by Jean Fagan Yellin and Margaret Fuller This Modern Library edition combines two of the most important African American slave narratives—crucial works that each illuminate and inform the other. Frederick Douglass’s Narrative, first published in 1845, …
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Av Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs
Häftad, 2004
94 kr
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
A Norton Critical Edition
Av Harriet Jacobs, Frances Smith Foster m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
231 kr
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This Norton Critical Edition includes:The first edition (1861), with the editors’ explanatory annotations, introduction, and glossary of the people of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.Three illustrations.Key public statements by Harriet Jacobs, William C. Nell, the Reverend Francis J. Grimke, …
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Av Harriet Jacobs, Evie Shockley
Häftad, 2025
113 kr
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the stirring autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive slave, detailing her harrowing escape from slavery and seven years hiding in an attic crawl space and the racism she faced in freedom. The Norton Library edition presents the text of the …
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Av Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs
Häftad, 2000
211 kr
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl & Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Two Memoirs of Notable African-Americans During the Nineteenth Century
Av Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass
Häftad, 2011
258 kr
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Av Harriet Jacobs, Nell Irvin Painter
E-bok, 2000
98 kr
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One of the central firsthand accounts of slavery in America A 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 …
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
E-bok, 2013
79 kr
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200th Anniversary Edition Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet Jacobs Writing as Linda Brent “It has been painful to me, in many ways, to recall the dreary years I passed in bondage. I would gladly forget them if I could. Yet the retrospection is not altogether without solace; for with …
In Their Own Voices
First-hand Histories of Formerly Enslaved People
Av Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass m. fl.
2021
526 kr
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This boxset of five titles is a forceful reminder of the tremendous impact that the slave trade of the 16th-19th centuries had on those coerced into servitude and, subsequently, their descendants. Through kidnapping, murder and trickery, families were destroyed forever as they were taken from their …
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
The Givens Collection
E-bok, 2010
13 kr
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Harriet Jacobs''s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is one of the most compelling accounts of slavery and one of the most unique of the one hundred or so slave narratives -- mostly written by men -- published before the Civil War. The child and grandchild of slaves -- and therefore forbidden by …
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
E-bok, 2016
106 kr
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Harriet Jacobs''s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is one of the most compelling accounts of slavery and one of the most unique of the one hundred or so slave narratives—mostly written by men—published before the Civil War. The child and grandchild of slaves—and therefore forbidden by law to …
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Häftad, 2025
111 kr
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Written by Harriet Ann Jacobs, using the pen name "Linda Brent," Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an in-depth chronological account of Jacobs's life as a slave, and the decisions and choices she made to gain freedom for herself and her children. It addresses the struggles and sexual abuse …
Voices of Freedom
Four Classic Slave Narratives
Av Sojourner Truth, Harriet Jacobs m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
243 kr
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Four of the most important and enduring American slave narratives together in one volume.Until slavery was abolished in 1865, millions of men, women, and children toiled under a system that stripped them of their freedom and their humanity. Much has been written about this shameful era of American …
Women and Freedom
Three Female Slave Narratives
Av Sojourner Truth, Harriet Jacobs m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
162 kr
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In these classic memoirs, three indomitable women share their stories of surviving slavery and fighting for the freedom of others. Behind the Scenes: Born into slavery, Elizabeth Keckley used her talents as a seamstress to buy her freedom and eventually became Mary Todd Lincoln''s dressmaker. …
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Inbunden, 2021
160 kr
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"This may be the most important story ever written by a slave woman, capturing as it does the gross indignities as well as the subtler social arrangements of the time."-Kirkus Review "Of female slave narratives, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself is the …
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Häftad, 2020
114 kr
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“This may be the most important story ever written by a slave woman, capturing as it does the gross indignities as well as the subtler social arrangements of the time.”-Kirkus Review“Of female slave narratives, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself is the …
