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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jacobs, Harriet
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: Miles, Tiya
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Random House Publishing Group, 2021.
Series:Modern Library Torchbearers Ser.
Subjects:
Enslaved persons > United States > Biography.
Esclaves > États-Unis > Biographies.
Slaves.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface by the author
  • Introduction by the editor
  • Childhood
  • The new master and mistress
  • The slaves' New Year's Day
  • The slave who dared to feel like a man
  • The trials of girlhood
  • The jealous mistress
  • The lover
  • What slaves are taught to think of the North
  • Sketches of neighboring slaveholders
  • A perilous passage in the slave girl's life
  • The new tie to life
  • Fear of insurrection
  • The church and slavery
  • Another link to life
  • Continued persecutions
  • Scenes at the plantation
  • The flight
  • Months of peril
  • The children sold
  • New perils
  • The loophole of retreat
  • Christmas festivities
  • Still in prison
  • The candidate for Congress
  • Competition in cunning
  • Important era in my brother's life
  • New destination for the children
  • Aunt Nancy
  • Preparations for escape
  • Northward bound
  • Incidents in Philadelphia
  • The meeting of mother and daughter
  • A home found
  • The old enemy again
  • Prejudice against color
  • The hairbreadth escape
  • A visit to England
  • Renewed invitations to go South
  • The confession
  • The Fugitive Slave Law
  • Free at last.