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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet JACOBS (1813 - 1897)
Genre(s): Memoirs
Read by: Elizabeth Klett in English
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 00 - Introduction
00:06:20 - 01 - Childhood
00:15:12 - 02 - The New Master and Mistress
00:28:31 - 03 - The Slaves' New Year's Day
00:33:19 - 04 - The Slave Who Dared to Feel Like a Man
00:57:30 - 05 - The Trials of Girlhood
01:05:59 - 06 - The Jealous Mistress
01:20:30 - 07 - The Lover
01:35:36 - 08 - What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North
01:41:24 - 09 - Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders
01:59:16 - 10 - A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life
02:12:24 - 11 - A New Tie to Life
02:23:53 - 12 - Fear of Insurrection
02:35:38 - 13 - The Church and Slavery
02:54:08 - 14 - Another Link to Life
03:02:08 - 15 - Continued Persecutions
03:16:16 - 16 - Scenes at the Plantation
03:37:56 - 17 - The Flight
03:45:08 - 18 - Months of Peril
04:01:31 - 19 - The Children Sold
04:12:58 - 20 - New Perils
04:22:22 - 21 - The Loophole of Retreat
04:32:08 - 22 - Christmas Festivities
04:37:24 - 23 - Still in Prison
04:46:48 - 24 - The Candidate for Congress
04:53:12 - 25 - Competition in Cunning
05:04:34 - 26 - Important Era in my Brother's Life
05:14:16 - 27 - New Destination for the Children
05:29:54 - 28 - Aunt Nancy
05:41:36 - 29 - Preparations for Escape
06:00:48 - 30 - Northward Bound
06:08:01 - 31 - Incidents in Philadelphia
06:18:24 - 32 - The Meeting of Mother and Daughter
06:26:26 - 33 - A Home Found
06:32:54 - 34 - The Old Enemy Again
06:41:20 - 35 - Prejudice Against Color
06:47:02 - 36 - The Hairsbreadth Escape
06:58:04 - 37 - A Visit to England
07:04:23 - 38 - Renewed Invitations to Go South
07:09:09 - 39 - The Confession
07:13:40 - 40 - The Fugitive Slave Law
07:25:46 - 41 - Free At Last
07:41:47 - 42 - Appendix
Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to freedom in the north, and her ensuing struggles to free her children. The narrative was partly serialized in the New York Tribune, but was discontinued because Jacobs' depictions of the sexual abuse of female slaves were considered too shocking. It was published in book form in 1861. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett).
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