Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Penguin Classics Series)
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Reprint of the 1861 text which is cited in Books for College Libraries, 3d ed. Annotation © Book News, Inc., Portland, ORLibrary JournalPublished in 1861, this was one of the first personal narratives by a slave and one of the few written by a woman. Jacobs (1813-97) was a slave in North Carolina and suffered terribly, along with her family, at the hands of a ruthless owner. She made several failed attempts to escape before successfully making her way North, though it took years of hiding and slow progress. Eventually, she was reunited with her children. For all biography and history collections. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
Childhood8The New Master and Mistress11The Slaves' New Year's Day16The Slave who dared to feel like a Man17The Trials of Girlhood26The Jealous Mistress28The Lover33What Slaves are taught to think of the North39Sketches of neighboring Slaveholders41A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life47The new Tie to Life51Fear of Insurrection55The Church and Slavery59Another Link to Life65Continued Persecutions68Scenes at the Plantation73The Flight80Months of Peril83The Children Sold88New Perils92The Loophole of Retreat95Christmas Festivities98Still in Prison100The Candidate for Congress103Competition in Cunning105Important Era in my Brother's Life109New Destination for the Children113Aunt Nancy118Preparations for Escape122Northward Bound129Incidents in Philadelphia132The Meeting of Mother and Daughter135A Home Found138The Old Enemy again140Prejudice Against Color143The Hairbreadth Escape145A Visit to England149Renewed Invitations to go South151The Confession153The Fugitive Slave Law154Free at Last159Appendix165
