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In her book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs describes with brutal honesty the hardships she endures under slavery, including the extraordinary choices she makes to…
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Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains the most-read woman’s slave narrative of all time. Jean Fagan Yellin recounts the experiences that shaped Incidents-the years Jacobs
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a poignant narrative by Harriet A. Jacobs, recounting her harrowing experiences as a slave in the American South. Jacobs bravely shares…
Although millions of African American women were held in bondage over the 250 years that slavery was legal in the United States, Harriet Jacobs (1813-97) is the only one known…
Peggi Medeiros
In 1861, Harriet Ann Jacobs published a masterpiece, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Her book is the first and only narrative to give voice to a woman…
Moses Roper,Harriet Jacobs
The autobiographies of Moses Roper and Harriet Jacobs bring together the lives of two incredible individuals that made a difference in American history simply because they refused to give up…
Harriet Jacobs
The autobiography of Harriet Jacobs as told by herself. She details her life in slavery from a young girl until she becomes a free woman.
If there is one book about slavery every woman should read, this is it! Based on a true story, Silent No More is a book about resilience, from a woman’s…
The voice of a black female slave, written in her own hand, as she struggles for identity and freedom. What is it to serve a master? What is it to…
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl' is a powerful and compelling story of Harriet Jacobs whose dauntless spirit and faith carried her from a life of servitude and…
Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl Written by Herself is a powerful and moving autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, a former slave who escaped to freedom in the mid-1800s…
The branch of medicine dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of adult diseases is known as internal medicine. It is also a subfield under veterinary medicine and clinical pharmacy…
As a slave, Harriet Jacobs began suffering sexual abuse at the hands of her master at the age of 11. This is the story of how she fled to the…
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This powerful and unflinching memoir by young mother and fugitive slave, Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813 -1897), remains among the few remaining slave narratives written by a woman.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an autobiography by Harriet Jacobs, a young mother and fugitive slave. The book documents Jacobs’ life as a slave and how…
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by HerselfBy Harriet Ann Jacobs
Reprint of the 1861 text which is cited in Books for College Libraries, 3d ed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl documents Jacobs’ life as a slave and how she gained freedom for her family. She explores the struggles and sexual abuse that…
Excerpt: Reader be assured this narrative is no fiction. I am aware that some of my adventures may seem incredible; but they are, nevertheless, strictly true. I have not exaggerated…
Internal medicine is a medical specialty, which deals with the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases in adults. Specialists in this field are involved in the management of complex multisystem…
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself is a memoir written by Harriet Jacobs, an enslaved woman who lived in the United States during the mid-19th…
While I advised him to be good and forgiving I was not unconscious of the beam in my own eye. It was the very knowledge of my own shortcomings that…
Harriet Jacobs was not an ordinary slave girl, and her autobiography is not merely a catalogue of the miseries of slavery. This, the most important female slave narrative, skilfully employs…
As well as a precious historical document, it is also a timeless exploration of issues of race, gender and the struggle for freedom.The Hero Classics series: Meditations The Prophet A…
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
2019 Reprint of 1861 Edition. A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation, Harriet Jacobs's classic narrative, written…
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, which was first published in 1861, was one of the first slave narratives penned by a woman. The book tells the story…
Harriet A Jacobs
Title: Incidents in the life of a slave girl.Author: Harriet A JacobsPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin’s famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500–1926 contains a collection…
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Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl is considered a slave narrative as well as an example of feminist literature. Harriet Jacobs began composing Incidents in the Life of a…
Ruth Harriet Jacobs
Are you aging OUTRAGEOUSLY and COURAGEOUSLY? In ABC’s for Seniors, Dr. Ruth Jacobs presents the essentials that enable a reader to harvest life fully for creative, healthy, successful, vigorous, and…
This text is a guide to living it up in the senior years, addressing the many issues faced by older women. It covers such areas as: reinventing yourself in the…
An analysis of the work of Harriet Jacobs, today perhaps the single-most read and studied black American woman of the nineteenth century.
