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This Norton Critical Edition includes: The first edition (1861), with the editors' explanatory annotations, introduction, and glossary of the people of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Three illustrations. Key public statements by Harriet Jacobs, William C. Nell, the Reverend Francis J. Grimke, and others. A rich selection of correspondence by Harriet Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child, and John Greenleaf Whittier, suggesting Incidents's initial...

Reproduction of the original: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs

Reproduction of the original: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Harriet Jacobs was not an ordinary slave girl, and her autobiography is not an ordinary account of the miseries of slavery. She was a slave who triumphed not only by luck but by careful planning and daring deceit. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, the most important and most widely read female slave narrative, presents the subtle humiliations in addition to the simple brutality of slave life, especially for enslaved women and children. Th...

Harriet Jacobs was not an ordinary slave girl, and her autobiography is not an ordinary account of the miseries of slavery. She was a slave who triumphed not only by luck but by careful planning and daring deceit. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, the most important and most widely read female slave narrative, presents the subtle humiliations in addition to the simple brutality of slave life, especially for enslaved women and children. Th...

Excerpt from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by HerselfAt her request, I have revised her manuscript, but, such changes as I have made have been mainly for purposes Of condensation and orderly arrangement. I have not added any thing to the incidents, or changed the import of her very pertinent remarks. With tri¿ing exceptions, both the ideas and the language are her own. I pruned excrescences a little, but otherwise I had no rea...

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Unabridged edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, provided here for chump change. The voice of Harriet Jacobs, slave, as she struggles for identity and freedom. What is it to serve a master? What is it to know you are free? Read for yourself. CONTENTS I. CHILDHOOD 4 II. THE NEW MASTER AND MISTRESS. 6 III. THE SLAVES' NEW YEAR'S DAY. 8 IV. THE SLAVE WHO DARED TO FEEL LIKE A MAN. 9 V. THE TRIALS OF GIRLHOOD. 15 VI. THE JEALOUS MISTR...

Not only one of the last of over one hundred slave narratives published separately before the Civil War, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) is also one of the few existing narratives written by a woman. It offers a unique perspective on the complex plight of the black woman as slave and as writer. In a story that merges the conventions of the slave narrative with the techniques of the sentimental novel, Harriet Jacobs describes her e...

Not only one of the last of over one hundred slave narratives published separately before the Civil War, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) is also one of the few existing narratives written by a woman. It offers a unique perspective on the complex plight of the black woman as slave and as writer. In a story that merges the conventions of the slave narrative with the techniques of the sentimental novel, Harriet Jacobs describes her e...

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 know you are bought free? Read for yourself.