Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet A. Jacobs: A True Tale of Slavery, by John S. Jaco bs
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These two slave narratives expand our knowledge of the differing ways males and females coped with enslavement and later ordeals in flight. This popularly–priced anthology contains the often taught Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and the recently discovered A True Tale of Slavery by John S. Jacobs, her younger brother, now reprinted for the first time.
After Harriet′s owner, a physician, repeatedly abused her, she escaped his sexual advances for a time by entering into a relationship with a local attorney. Her owner continued to harass her, and she sought refuge in a crawlspace where she lived in hiding. After her escape to the North, she published her narrative.
John S. Jacobs "walked away" as he put it, from his owner, a congressman. He sailed on a whaling ship and educated himself. He then became a paid agent of the Anti–Slavery Society, made a lecturing trip with Frederick Douglass, and finally settled in London, where he remained until it was safe for a fugitive to return to the North. He wrote his story for a London Sunday school journal where it was published in 1861.
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<p>1. Harriet A. Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl</p>
<p>2. John S. Jacobs: A True Tale of Slavery</p>
<p>Childhood 13</p>
<p>The New Master And Mistress 17</p>
<p>The Slave′s New Year′s Day 24</p>
<p>The Slave Who Dared To Feel Like A Man 27</p>
<p>The Trials Of Girlhood 39</p>
<p>The Jealous Mistress 43</p>
<p>The Lover 50</p>
<p>What Slaves Are Taught To Think Of The North 57</p>
<p>Sketches Of Neighboring Slaveholders 60</p>
<p>A Perilous Passage In The Slave Girl′s Life 69</p>
<p>The New Tie To Life 75</p>
<p>Fear Of Insurrection 81</p>
<p>The Church And Slavery 87</p>
<p>Another Link To Life 96</p>
<p>Continued Persecutions 100</p>
<p>Scenes At The Plantation 107</p>
<p>The Flight 117</p>
<p>Months Of Peril 121</p>
<p>The Children Sold 129</p>
<p>New Perils 135</p>
<p>The Loophole Of Retreat 140</p>
<p>Christmas Festivities 145</p>
<p>Still In Prison 148</p>
<p>The Candidate For Congress 152</p>
<p>Competition In Cunning 155</p>
<p>Important Era In My Brother′s Life 161</p>
<p>New Destination For The Children 166</p>
<p>Aunt Nancy 174</p>
<p>Preparations For Escape 180</p>
<p>Northward Bound 190</p>
<p>Incidents In Philadelphia 194</p>
<p>The Meeting Of Mother and Daughter 199</p>
<p>A Home Found 203</p>
<p>The Old Enemy Again 206</p>
<p>Prejudice Against Color 211</p>
<p>The Hairbreadth Escape 214</p>
<p>A Visit To England 220</p>
<p>Renewed Invitations To Go South 223</p>
<p>The Confession 226</p>
<p>The Fugitive Slave Law 229</p>
<p>Free At Last 235</p>
<p>Appendix 245</p>