· Librivox recording of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet Jacobs. Read by Elizabeth Klett. Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to freedom in the north, and her ensuing struggles to free her children. 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 . (title page) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself Linda Brent (Harriet Ann Jacobs) Edited by L. Maria Child p. Boston: , c Published for the Author, , c Call number VC Jl7i (North Carolina Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill).
for from long. · incidents in the life of a slave girl, written by herself language: Further study harriet jacobs and incidents in the life of a slave girl background harriet jacobs was born into slavery in near edenton, north carolina. She enjoyed a relatively happy family life until she was six years old, when her mother died. Although generally ignored by critics, who often dismissed Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself as a fictionalized account of slavery, the work is heralded today as the first book-length narrative by an ex-slave that reveals the unique brutalities inflicted on enslaved women. The first-hand account of Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, provides incredible insight into the sexual abuse faced by many female slaves, the treatment of African Americans in both the North and South, and gives a new perspective into what the foundational conflict of the Civil War really was.
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. (title page) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself Linda Brent (Harriet Ann Jacobs) Edited by L. Maria Child p. Boston: , c Published for the Author, , c Call number VC Jl7i (North Carolina Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill). Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a slave narrative that was published in by Harriet Ann Jacobs, using the pen name "Linda Brent." The book is an in-depth chronological account of Jacobs's life as a slave, and the decisions and choices she made to gain freedom for herself and her children.
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