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

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Harriet Ann Jacobs

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Summary

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl carries the reader through the events of one woman's birth into slavery, her sufferings under that institution, and the manner in which she is eventually able to free herself and her family from bondage and create a new life in the North.

Through the pseudonym Linda Brent, the author, Harriet Jacobs, begins her story by telling us about her unusually (for a slave...

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

89,777 words, approx. 300 pages

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 Thin... Read more

Harriet Ann Jacobs Biographies (2)

Harriet A. Jacobs

3,133 words, approx. 11 pages

Harriet A. Jacobs (1823-1897) was a slave who decided she must run away in order to protect her children from harsh treatment by their owners.Delilah Horniblow was a slave to Margaret Horniblow in the... Read more

Harriet A(nn) Jacobs

5,322 words, approx. 18 pages

Published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself is a powerful and complex autobiography in which she recorded and reflect... Read more

Essays & Analysis (17)

Critical Essay by Lydia Maria Child

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Critical Essay by Anne B. Dalton

11,270 words, approx. 38 pages

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Critical Essay by Jean Fagan Yellin

3,331 words, approx. 12 pages

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Thomas Doherty

5,295 words, approx. 18 pages

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Critical Essay by Mary Helen Washington

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Critical Essay by Hazel V. Carby

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Sarah Way Sherman

8,910 words, approx. 30 pages

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Critical Essay by Valerie Smith

5,612 words, approx. 19 pages

1,654 words, approx. 6 pages

Imagine yourself a female slave, living a life of service on a large plantation during the early-19th century. Imagine waking every morning at dawn to begin a never-ending day of cooking, cleaning, wa... Read more

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

765 words, approx. 3 pages

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. By Harriet A. Jacobs The family of a slave is the most important aspect of life for a person held in slavery. Many parts of the autobiography show the streng... Read more

The Power of Sympathy in Harriet Jacobs's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"

884 words, approx. 3 pages

The purpose of this narrative is to redefine the African American slave woman and show her as a normal human being, equal to white Americans, with feelings and sentimental value. Harriet Jacobs plays ... Read more

Life of a Slave Girl and Gender Identity

2,138 words, approx. 8 pages

In "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", Harriet Jacobs writes, "Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women" (64). Jacobs' work presents the evils of slavery as being worse... Read more

Motherhood in Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

1,719 words, approx. 6 pages

Motherhood, in its simplest definition is the state of being a mother; however, it isn't as clear cut and emotionless as the definition implies. Motherhood holds a different meaning for everyone. Fo... Read more

Purity and Social Distinction in Persepolis and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

1,089 words, approx. 4 pages

The two novels - Persepolis, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, both raise issues of social distinction, and separation, along with Identity and Purity issues in social classes. Social distin... Read more

Unhappy New Year

661 words, approx. 3 pages

In the mid 1800s Harriet Jacobs wrote the memoir Incidents in the life of a slave girl. She did so with the purpose of informing the women residing in the North about the daily conflicts and struggl... Read more

Life of a Slave Girl

1,141 words, approx. 4 pages

The life of a slave was very difficult during the 1800's, especially those of the women slaves. Many were mistreated and abused by their masters. Harriet Jacobs spent most of her life as a slave. As a... Read more

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