Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
by Jacobs, Harriet A.Edition: Large
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-11-30
Publisher(s): Belknap Pr
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Summary
This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John Jacobsrs"s short slave narrative, A True Tale of Slavery, published in London in 1861, adds a brotherrs"s perspective to Harriet Jacobsrs"s autobiography. It is an exciting addition to this now classic work, as John Jacobs presents further historical information about family life so well described already by his sister. Once more, Jean Yellin, who discovered this long-lost document, supplies annotation and authentication. This is the standard edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, reissued here in the John Harvard Library and updated with a new bibliography.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | p. xv |
| Introduction | p. xix |
| Note on the Text | p. lv |
| Chronology | p. lvii |
| Cast of Characters | p. lxii |
| Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl | |
| Preface by the Author | p. 1 |
| Introduction by the Editor | p. 3 |
| Childhood | p. 5 |
| The New Master and Mistress | p. 10 |
| The Slaves' New Year's Day | p. 17 |
| The Slave Who Dared to Feel like a Man | p. 20 |
| The Trials of Girlhood | p. 33 |
| The Jealous Mistress | p. 38 |
| The Lover | p. 46 |
| What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North | p. 54 |
| Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders | p. 58 |
| A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life | p. 68 |
| The New Tie to Life | p. 75 |
| Fear of Insurrection | p. 81 |
| The Church and Slavery | p. 88 |
| Another Link to Life | p. 98 |
| Continued Persecutions | p. 103 |
| Scenes at the Plantation | p. 111 |
| The Flight | p. 122 |
| Months of Peril | p. 126 |
| The Children Sold | p. 135 |
| New Perils | p. 141 |
| The Loophole of Retreat | p. 146 |
| Christmas Festivities | p. 151 |
| Still in Prison | p. 154 |
| The Candidate for Congress | p. 159 |
| Competition in Cunning | p. 163 |
| Important Era in My Brother's Life | p. 169 |
| New Destination for the Children | p. 175 |
| Aunt Nancy | p. 183 |
| Preparations for Escape | p. 189 |
| Northward Bound | p. 200 |
| Incidents in Philadelphia | p. 204 |
| The Meeting of Mother and Daughter | p. 210 |
| A Home Found | p. 215 |
| The Old Enemy Again | p. 219 |
| Prejudice against Color | p. 224 |
| The Hairbreadth Escape | p. 228 |
| A Visit to England | p. 234 |
| Renewed Invitations to Go South | p. 238 |
| The Confession | p. 241 |
| The Fugitive Slave Law | p. 244 |
| Free at Last | p. 251 |
| Appendix | p. 261 |
| A True Tale of Slavery | |
| Some Account of My Early Life | p. 265 |
| A Further Account of My Family | p. 267 |
| My Uncle's Troubles | p. 271 |
| My New Master's Plantation | p. 275 |
| My Master Goes to Washington | p. 27S |
| Sensations of Freedom | p. 282 |
| Cruel Treatment of Slaves | p. 286 |
| Illustrations | p. 293 |
| Abbreviations | p. 309 |
| Correspondence | p. 311 |
| Notes | p. 343 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 405 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 413 |
| Index | p. 417 |
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