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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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Description for Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; 3JH; BGHA; HBTS; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 399.
After hiding in her grandmother’s attic for seven years, Harriet Ann Jacobs was finally able to escape servitudeand her master’s sexual abusewhen she fled to the North. Once there, she became a very active abolitionist, and her correspondence with Harriet Beecher Stowe inspired her to write Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl about her years as a slave.
She published the narrative in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, and the book was written as a novel with fictionalized characters to protect Jacobs from retribution by her former owners. (Dr. Flint, i.e., the real Dr. James Norcom, ... Read more
After hiding in her grandmother’s attic for seven years, Harriet Ann Jacobs was finally able to escape servitudeand her master’s sexual abusewhen she fled to the North. Once there, she became a very active abolitionist, and her correspondence with Harriet Beecher Stowe inspired her to write Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl about her years as a slave.
She published the narrative in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, and the book was written as a novel with fictionalized characters to protect Jacobs from retribution by her former owners. (Dr. Flint, i.e., the real Dr. James Norcom, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781632204554
SKU
V9781632204554
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About Harriet Ann Jacobs
Harriet Ann Jacobs was born a slave in 1813 in Edenton, North Carolina. She escaped captivity in 1842, and was formally freed in 1852. After corresponding with Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Ann Jacobs was inspired to write her life story. After playing an active role in the antislavery movement, she died in Washington, D.C., in 1897.
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