Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a book that was published in 1861 by Harriet Jacobs, using the pen name "Linda Brent." It is considered a work of feminist literature. While on one level it chronicles the experiences of Harriet Jacobs as a slave, and the various humiliations she had to endure in that unhappy state, it also deals with the particular tortures visited on women at her station. Often in the book, she will point to a particular punishment that a male slave will endure at the hands of slave holders, and comment that, although she finds the punishment brutal in the extreme, it cannot compare to the abuse that a young woman must face while still on the cusp of girlhood. — Excerpted from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

• Cover
• Preface By The Author
• Introduction By The Editor
• 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 XIX: 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

This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.