Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Written by Herself, with "A True Tale of Slavery"

By: Harriet A. Jacobs, Jean Fagan Yellin (Editor), John S. Jacobs (Contribution by)

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Paperback | 20 November 2009 | Edition Number 3

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This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John S. Jacobs's short slave narrative, A True Tale of Slavery, published in London in 1861, adds a brother's perspective to Harriet A. Jacobs's autobiography. It is an exciting addition to this now classic work, as John Jacobs presents further historical information about family life so well described already by his sister. Once more, Jean Fagan Yellin, who discovered this long-lost document, supplies annotation and authentication.

This is the standard edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, reissued here in the John Harvard Library and updated with a new bibliography.

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List of Illustrations	p. xv
Introduction	p. xix
Note on the Text	p. lv
Chronology	p. lvii
Cast of Characters	p. lxii
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Preface by the Author	p. 1
Introduction by the Editor	p. 3
Childhood	p. 5
The New Master and Mistress	p. 10
The Slaves' New Year's Day	p. 17
The Slave Who Dared to Feel like a Man	p. 20
The Trials of Girlhood	p. 33
The Jealous Mistress	p. 38
The Lover	p. 46
What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North	p. 54
Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders	p. 58
A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life	p. 68
The New Tie to Life	p. 75
Fear of Insurrection	p. 81
The Church and Slavery	p. 88
Another Link to Life	p. 98
Continued Persecutions	p. 103
Scenes at the Plantation	p. 111
The Flight	p. 122
Months of Peril	p. 126
The Children Sold	p. 135
New Perils	p. 141
The Loophole of Retreat	p. 146
Christmas Festivities	p. 151
Still in Prison	p. 154
The Candidate for Congress	p. 159
Competition in Cunning	p. 163
Important Era in My Brother's Life	p. 169
New Destination for the Children	p. 175
Aunt Nancy	p. 183
Preparations for Escape	p. 189
Northward Bound	p. 200
Incidents in Philadelphia	p. 204
The Meeting of Mother and Daughter	p. 210
A Home Found	p. 215
The Old Enemy Again	p. 219
Prejudice against Color	p. 224
The Hairbreadth Escape	p. 228
A Visit to England	p. 234
Renewed Invitations to Go South	p. 238
The Confession	p. 241
The Fugitive Slave Law	p. 244
Free at Last	p. 251
Appendix	p. 261
A True Tale of Slavery
Some Account of My Early Life	p. 265
A Further Account of My Family	p. 267
My Uncle's Troubles	p. 271
My New Master's Plantation	p. 275
My Master Goes to Washington	p. 27S
Sensations of Freedom	p. 282
Cruel Treatment of Slaves	p. 286
Illustrations	p. 293
Abbreviations	p. 309
Correspondence	p. 311
Notes	p. 343
Selected Bibliography	p. 405
Acknowledgments	p. 413
Index	p. 417
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