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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

    $0.49 CAD

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    An Autobiographical Account of an Escaped Slave and Abolitionist

    by Harriet Ann Jacobs ...
    After hiding in her grandmother’s attic for seven years, Harriet Ann Jacobs was finally able to escape servitude-and her master’s sexual abuse-when she fled to the North. Once there, she became a very active abolitionist, and her correspondence with Harriet Beecher Stowe inspired her to write Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl about her years as a slave.She published the narrative in 1861 under ... Read more

    $3.95 CAD

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    $1.03 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    $5.99 CAD

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

    by Harriet Jacobs ...
    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a slave narrative that was published in 1861 by Harriet Jacobs, using the pen name "Linda Brent." The book 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 that young women slaves faced on the plantations, and how ... Read more

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  • The Life of a Slave Girl - Women's Slave Narratives

    by Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, Elizabeth Keckley, Kate Drumgoold, Lucy A. Delaney, Margaretta Matilda Odell, Emma and Lloyd Ray, Annie L. Burton, Nina Hill Robinson, Martha Griffith Browne ...
    This edition brings to you the most powerful voices of women who survived slavery in 18th and 19th century. Their life stories, their actions and their truth had an impact on the expansion of anti-slavery movement in the Northern States of America and British Empire and the subsequent abolition of slavery. Today, in our "modern" society, there are over 30 million girls and women who are victims of ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $2.99 CAD

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    Enriched edition. Autobiography

    by Harriet Jacobs, Adrian Foxley ...
    Harriet Jacobs' "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" stands as a seminal work in American literature, providing a harrowing yet insightful account of a woman's struggle against the dehumanizing institution of slavery. Written in the narrative style of an autobiographical slave memoir, Jacobs employs a confessional tone that engenders both empathy and outrage. The book explores themes of ... Read more

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

    Enriched edition.

    by Harriet Jacobs, Spencer McKay ...
    Harriet Jacobs' 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl' is a poignant and powerful narrative that explores the harrowing experiences of enslavement faced by black women in the 19th century. Written in a candid and intimate style, Jacobs chronicles her life as a slave, detailing the physical and sexual abuse she endured, as well as her struggle for freedom and the safety of her children. This ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    by Harriet Jacobs ...
    In 1861, Harriet Jacobs became the first formerly enslaved African American woman to publish a book-length account of her life. In crafting her coming-of-age story, she insisted upon biographical accuracy and bold creativity—telling the truth while giving herself and others fictionalized names. She also adapted conventions from two other popular genres: the sentimental novel and the slave ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    $8.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook