Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet A. Jacobs; A True Tale of Slavery, by John S. Jacobs - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:George Hendrick, Willene HendrickTheme:Ethnic Orientation/African AmericanPublish date:8/3/1999Pages:210
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Brandywine PressISBN-13:9781881089650ISBN-10:1881089657UPC:9781881089650Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Cultural & Regional, Historical, Cultural & Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:African American & Black StudiesSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.295Product ID:SCZEZ92G7Q
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.
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Brandywine PressISBN-13:9781881089650ISBN-10:1881089657UPC:9781881089650Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Cultural & Regional, Historical, Cultural & Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:African American & Black StudiesSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.295Product ID:SCZEZ92G7Q
George Hendrick is professor Emeritus of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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