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

Author:
Harriet Jacobs
Genres:
Memoirs
Language:
English
Read by:
Elizabeth Klett
Runnning time:
7:46:49
Upload date:
2008-06-24

Introduction

Chapters

1.
Introduction
00:06:20
2.
Childhood
00:08:52
3.
The New Master and Mistress
00:13:19
4.
The Slaves’ New Year’s Day
00:04:48
5.
The Slave Who Dared to Feel Like a Man
00:24:10
6.
The Trials of Girlhood
00:08:29
7.
The Jealous Mistress
00:14:30
8.
The Lover
00:15:06
9.
What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North
00:05:48
10.
Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders
00:17:52
11.
A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl’s Life
00:13:08
12.
A New Tie to Life
00:11:29
13.
Fear of Insurrection
00:11:44
14.
The Church and Slavery
00:18:30
15.
Another Link to Life
00:08:00
16.
Continued Persecutions
00:14:08
17.
Scenes at the Plantation
00:21:40
18.
The Flight
00:07:12
19.
Months of Peril
00:16:22
20.
The Children Sold
00:11:27
21.
New Perils
00:09:24
22.
The Loophole of Retreat
00:09:46
23.
Christmas Festivities
00:05:16
24.
Still in Prison
00:09:24
25.
The Candidate for Congress
00:06:24
26.
Competition in Cunning
00:11:22
27.
Important Era in my Brother’s Life
00:09:42
28.
New Destination for the Children
00:15:38
29.
Aunt Nancy
00:11:42
30.
Preparations for Escape
00:19:12
31.
Northward Bound
00:07:12
32.
Incidents in Philadelphia
00:10:23
33.
The Meeting of Mother and Daughter
00:08:02
34.
A Home Found
00:06:28
35.
The Old Enemy Again
00:08:26
36.
Prejudice Against Color
00:05:41
37.
The Hairsbreadth Escape
00:11:01
38.
A Visit to England
00:06:19
39.
Renewed Invitations to Go South
00:04:46
40.
The Confession
00:04:31
41.
The Fugitive Slave Law
00:12:06
42.
Free At Last
00:16:00
43.
Appendix
00:05:10
Description
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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