Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
by Jacobs, HarrietFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-07-01
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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Summary
Not only one of the last of over one hundred slave narratives published separately before the Civil War, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) is also one of the few existing narratives written by a woman. It offers a unique perspective on the complex plight of the black woman as slave and as writer. In a story that merges the conventions of the slave narrative with the techniques of the sentimental novel, Harriet Jacobs describes her efforts to fight off the advances of her master, her eventual liaison with another white man (the father of two of her children), and her ultimately successful struggle for freedom. Jacobs' account of her experiences, and her search for her own voice, prefigure the literary and ideological concerns of generations of African-American women writers to come.
Author Biography
Nell Irvin Painter is the author of Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol and Standing at Armageddon, the United States, 1877-1919, The Narrative of Hosea Hudson and Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction. She is Edwards Professor of History at Princeton University, where she currently heads the program in African-American Studies.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
| A Note on the Text | |
| Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl | |
| Preface by the Author | |
| Introduction by the Editor | |
| 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 Think of the North | |
| Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders | |
| A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life | |
| The New Tie to Life | |
| Fear of Insurrection | |
| The Church and Slavery | |
| Another Link to Life | |
| Continued Persecutions | |
| Scenes at the Plantation | |
| The Flight | |
| Months of Peril | |
| The Children Sold | |
| New Perils | |
| The Loophole of Retreat | |
| Christmas Festivities | |
| Still in Prison | |
| The Candidate for Congress | |
| Competition in Cunning | |
| Important Era in My Brother's Life | |
| New Destination for the Children | |
| Aunt Nancy | |
| Preparations for Escape | |
| Northward Bound | |
| Incidents in Philadelphia | |
| The Meeting of Mother and Daughter | |
| A Home Found | |
| The Old Enemy Again | |
| Prejudice Against Color | |
| The Hairbreadth Escape | |
| A Visit to England | |
| Renewed Invitations to Go South | |
| The Confession | |
| The Fugitive Slave Law | |
| Free at Last | |
| A True Tale of Slavery | |
| Some Account of My Early Life | |
| A Further Account of My Family, and of My New Master | |
| My Uncle's Troubles - My Further Experience of the Doctor, and Our Parting | |
| My New Master's Plantation - My Medical Practice Among the Slaves - My Sister's Hiding-Place | |
| My Master Goes to Washington as Member of Congress - He Is Engaged to Be Married - Wedding Trip to Chicago - Canada - New York - My Escape from Slavery | |
| Sensations of Freedom - Self-Education - A Whaling Voyage - I Meet My Sister, and Hear from Her About My Friends at Edenton - The Fugitive Slave Bill | |
| Cruel Treatment of Slaves - The Fugitive Slave Law - Slavery Opposed to Natural Rights and to Christianity | |
| Explanatory Notes | |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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