Ebook {Epub PDF} Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself by Harriet Ann Jacobs

 · Bibliographic Record. Author. Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), Editor. Child, Lydia Maria, Title. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Author: Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself: Electronic Edition. Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), Child, Lydia Maria Francis, , ed. by Funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the electronic publication of this title. Text scanned (OCR) by Carlene Hempel. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself, by Harriet Ann Jacobs, is a first-person narrative of Ms. Jacobs, who was a slave in the antebellum south. Her story as a slave really begins when she reaches puberty, and her master makes it known he will control her sexuality (he already has children by eleven other slave women)/5(K).

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself - Kindle edition by Jacobs, Harriet Ann. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself. Harriet Ann Jacobs introduces her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, one of two antebellum slave narratives that address'the particular problems faced by women slaves. The verse from Isaiah is a clear signal to Jacobs' readers that Incidents is not another "as-told-to" slave narrative, co-written by white editors in order to. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself: Electronic Edition. Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), Child, Lydia Maria Francis, , ed. by.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl opens with an introduction in which the author, Harriet Jacobs, states her reasons for writing an autobiography. Her story is painful, and she would rather have kept it private, but she feels that making it public may help the antislavery movement. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself is an autobiography by Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive slave, published in by L. Maria Child, who edited the book for its author. Jacobs used the pseudonym Linda Brent. The book documents Jacobs's life as a slave and how she gained freedom for herself and for her children. Jacobs contributed to the genre of slave narrative by using the techniques of sentimental novels "to address race and gender issues." She explores the strugg. After several trips south and one abroad to England, Jacobs reestablished herself as a relief worker in Washington, D.C. in the s and died there on March 7, Harriet Jacobs's autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (), is the most widely-read female antebellum slave narrative. In recounting her life experiences before she was freed, Jacobs offered her contemporary readers a startlingly realistic portrayal of her sexual history while a slave.