Harriet Jacobs

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

As a slave, Harriet Jacobs began suffering sexual abuse at the hands of her master at the age of 11. This is the story of how she fled to the north, joined a circle of abolitionists, and eventually moved to Alexandria where she established The Jacobs Free School.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Washington Square Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 135mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 236g
• ISBN-13: 9780743460569
• ISBN-10: 0743460561
• Artikelnr.: 21205686

Autorenporträt

Harriet Jacobs; Introduction by Louise Meriwether

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents.
CHAPTER I: Childhood.
CHAPTER II: The New Master and Mistress.
CHAPTER III: The Slaves' New Year's Day.
CHAPTER IV: The Slave Who Dared to Feel Like a Man.
CHAPTER V: The Trials of Girlhood.
CHAPTER VI: The Jealous Mistress.
CHAPTER VII: The Lover.
CHAPTER VIII: What Slaves are Taught to Think of the North.
CHAPTER IX: Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders.
CHAPTER X: A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life.
CHAPTER XI: The New Tie to Life.
CHAPTER XII: Fear of Insurrection.
CHAPTER XIII: The Church and Slavery.
CHAPTER XIV: Another Link to Life.
CHAPTER XV: Continued Persecutions.
CHAPTER XVI: Scenes at the Plantation.
CHAPTER XVII: The Flight.
CHAPTER XVIII: Months of Peril.
CHAPTER XVIX: The Children Sold.
CHAPTER XX: New Perils.
CHAPTER XXI: The Loophole of Retreat.
CHAPTER XXII: Christmas Festivities.
CHAPTER XXIII: Still in Prison.
CHAPTER XXIV: The Candidate for Congress.
CHAPTER XXV: Competition in Cunning.
CHAPTER XXVI: Important Era in my Brother's Life.
CHAPTER XXVII: New Destination for the Children.
CHAPTER XXVIII: Aunt Nancy.
CHAPTER XXIX: Preparations for Escape.
CHAPTER XXX: Northward Bound.
CHAPTER XXXI: Incidents in Philadelphia.
CHAPTER XXXII: The Meeting of Mother and Daughter.
CHAPTER XXXIII: A Home Found.
CHAPTER XXXIV: The Old Enemy Again.
CHAPTER XXXV: Prejudice Against Color.
CHAPTER XXXVI: The Hairbreadth Escape.
CHAPTER XXXVII: A Visit to England.
CHAPTER XXXVIII: Renewed Invitations to go South.
CHAPTER XXXIX: The Confession.
CHAPTER XL: The Fugitive Slave Law.
CHAPTER XLI: Free at Last.
Appendix
Epilogue