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  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Harriet A. Jacobs ...
    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a searing firsthand slave narrative that exposes the hidden cruelties of bondage, especially the sexual, domestic, and emotional suffering endured by enslaved women. In her preface, Linda Brent insists on the truth of her account, while editor L. Maria Child defends its publication as a necessary revelation of slavery's moral horrors and a call to action ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    by Harriet Jacobs, Sheba Blake ...
    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an autobiography by a young mother and fugitive slave published in 1861 by L. Maria Child, who edited the book for its author, Harriet Ann Jacobs. Jacobs used the pseudonym Linda Brent. The book documents Jacobs' life as a slave and how she gained freedom for herself and for her children. Jacobs contributed to the genre of slave narrative by using the ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    by Harriet Jacobs ...
    "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" is an autobiographical narrative written by Harriet Jacobs, an escaped slave, and published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent. The book chronicles Jacobs's life as a slave in the antebellum South, her struggles with sexual harassment and abuse, and her eventual escape to freedom.Jacobs's writing is powerful and emotional, vividly portraying the cruelty ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written By Herself

    by Harriet A. Jacobs ...
    "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," which was first published in 1861, was one of the first slave narratives penned by a woman. The book tells the story of Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897), a slave from North Carolina who suffered greatly (along with her family) at the hands of her ruthless owner. After several failed attempts to escape, Harriet eventually made her way north. Her journey, which ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself

    by Harriet Jacobs ...
    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a slave narrative that was published in 1861 by Harriet 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. It addresses the struggles and sexual abuse that young women slaves faced on the plantations, and how ... Read more

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  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    by Harriet Jacobs ...
    A Powerful Firsthand Account of Slavery, Resistance, and a Mother’s Fight for FreedomFirst published in 1861, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs is one of the most important autobiographical slave narratives of nineteenth-century America. Written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, the book gives a rare and deeply personal account of slavery from the perspective of an enslaved ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Born in Chains - Collected Slave Narratives

    First-Person Testimonies of Enslavement, Escape, Resistance, and the Fight for Freedom

    by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, William Grimes, Solomon Northup, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, Zamba Zembola, Boyrereau Brinch, Olaudah Equiano, Solomon Bayley, Henry Watson, John Brown, William Craft, Ellen Craft, J. W. Loguen, John Andrew Jackson, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner, Louis Hughes, Jacob D. Green, Elizabeth Keckley, Josiah Henson, Charles Ball, Austin Steward, Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, L. S. Thompson, James W. C. Pennington, Kate Drumgoold, Lucy A. Delaney, Moses Grandy, Leonard Black, Henry Box Brown, Phillis Wheatley, James L. Smith, Joseph Mountain, Peter Still, Annie L. Burton, Israel Campbell, Lewis Clarke, Francis Fedric, William Still, Moses Roper, Joseph Vance Lewis, Rev. Greensbury Washington Offley, John Thompson, Venture Smith, Isaac D. Williams, William Walker, Octavia Albert ...
    Born in Chains—Collected Slave Narratives assembles a capacious archive of bondage, flight, resistance, emancipation, and memory. Spanning autobiography, dictated testimony, spiritual reflection, political argument, and documentary recollection, the volume reveals the formal range of slave narrative traditions across the Atlantic world. Accounts of escape, family separation, literacy, labor, ... Read more

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  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    by Harriet Jacobs ...
    Tormented by her master, a young mother plots a daring escape, in this courageous and captivating slave narrativeWhen her mother dies, six-year-old slave girl Linda Brent is sent to the big house, where she grows up serving a gentle mistress who teaches her to read and write. But the mistress's death brings about a sudden and terrible change in Linda's fortunes.Her lecherous new master torments ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Incidents in The Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

    by Harriet Jacobs ...
    Incidents in The Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs: Enter the world of slavery and the fight for freedom with "Incidents in The Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs. This memoir tells the story of Jacobs' life as a slave and her eventual escape to freedom, offering a powerful and moving account of the inhumanity and brutality of the slave trade. Jacobs' courageous spirit and powerful voice ... Read more

    $1.40 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    by Harriet A. Jacobs ...
    A courageous and unflinching account of life in bondage, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is one of the most important slave narratives in American history. Written by Harriet A. Jacobs under the pseudonym Linda Brent, this deeply personal memoir reveals the harrowing experiences of an enslaved woman determined to protect her dignity, her children, and her freedom.From the brutal realities of ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself

    by Harriet A. Jacobs ...
    The book chronicles Jacobs's life from her childhood in slavery in North Carolina to her eventual escape to freedom. She details her experiences with her enslaver, Dr. Flint, who subjected her to relentless sexual harassment, and her efforts to protect her children from the horrors of slavery. Jacobs's narrative is marked by her deep emotional and psychological struggles, as she grapples with her ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    Enriched edition. Autobiography

    by Harriet Jacobs, Adrian Foxley ...
    Harriet Jacobs' "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" stands as a seminal work in American literature, providing a harrowing yet insightful account of a woman's struggle against the dehumanizing institution of slavery. Written in the narrative style of an autobiographical slave memoir, Jacobs employs a confessional tone that engenders both empathy and outrage. The book explores themes of ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus