Ebook {Epub PDF} The Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs

(title page) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself Linda Brent (Harriet Ann Jacobs) Edited by L. Maria Child p. Boston: , c Published for the Author, , c Call number VC Jl7i (North Carolina Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill). Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is one of the first personal narratives written by a slave and one of the few written by a woman. Harriet Jacobs, Linda Brent, was a slave in North Carolina who suffered terribly at the hands of a ruthless owner. She made several failed attempts to escape before successfully making her way north, a process. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself is an autobiography by Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive slave, published in 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.

By , when Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was published "for the author" by a Boston press, Harriet Jacobs had become a free mother, a New Yorker, and a scathing critic of the institution of southern slavery. She had transformed her life and the lives of her children by securing her freedom as well as theirs, and then penned an. Around the time Harriet turned 15, Norcom began his relentless efforts to bend the slave girl's will. At first he whispered "foul words" in her ear. As time went on his tactics became more overt. This is the story of Harriet Ann Jacobs, a story of slavery in the 19th century, a story of terrible human suffering, and a story that, later on, played a significant role in the abolitionist movement. Slavery still continues everywhere in the world; its operational styles have changed, but its brutality has remained the same, and it harms.

The Slave Girl; Absurd's Slave Narrative Series, Volume 2; By: Harriet Ann Jacobs; Narrated by: Darla Middlebrook; Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins Unabridged Audiobook. Harriet Jacobs. Harriet Jacobs ( or – March 7, ) was an African-American writer, whose autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in under the pseudonym Linda Brent, is now considered an "American classic". Born into slavery in Edenton, North Carolina, she was sexually harassed by her enslaver. Written by Herself. Harriet Ann Jacobs was born a slave in Edenton, North Carolina in After both her mother, Delilah, and father, Elijah, died during Jacobs's youth, she and her younger brother, John, were raised by their maternal grandmother, Molly Horniblow. Jacobs learned to read, write, and sew under her first mistress, Margaret Horniblow, and hoped to be freed by her.