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  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    by Harriet Ann Jacobs ...
    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the autobiography of Harriet Ann Jacobs, a mother and abolitionist who escaped slavery with her children after hiding in her grandmother’s attic for seven years. Written to expose the horrors of life in slavery and appeal to free women in order to earn their support in ending slavery, the book chronicles the many abuses she experienced as a slave and her ... Read more

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  • Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl (Mobi Classics)

    by Harriet Ann Jacobs ...
    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a book that was published in 1861 by Harriet Jacobs, using the pen name "Linda Brent". While on one level it chronicles the experiences of Harriet Jacobs as a slave, and the various humiliations she had to endure in that unhappy state, it also deals with the particular tortures visited on women at her station. Often in the book, she will point to a ... Read more

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  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    by Harriet Ann Jacobs ...
    This vintage book contains Harriet Ann Jacobs' 1861 autobiography, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl". It chronicles Jacobs' life as a female slave and documents how she attained freedom both for herself and for her children. Within this volume she explores the life of female slaves on plantations, the abuse and hardships that they had to endure, and their desperate efforts to protect their ... Read more

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  • The Anthology. African American literature. Novels and short stories. Poetry. Non-fiction. Essays. Illustrated

    by William Wells Brown, Harriet E. Wilson, Nella Larsen, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Frances E. W. Harper, Langston Hughes, Phillis Wheatley, Solomon Northup, Frederick Douglass, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, Charles Ball, Josiah Henson, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Elizabeth Keckley, Louis Hughes, Booker T. Washington, Henry Box Brown, James Hambleton Christian, Theophilus Collins, Seth Concklin, Charles Gilbert, Samuel Green, Jamie Griffin, Harry Grimes, John Henry Hill, Jane Johnson, Matilda Mahoney, Mary Frances Melvin, Aunt Hannah Moore, Alfred S. Thornton, W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of enslaved people narratives, African-American literature was dominated by autobiographical spiritual narratives. The genre known as slave narratives in the 19th century were ... Read more

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

    by Harriet Ann Jacobs ...
    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the amazing narratives of Harriet Ann Jacobs. Jacobs, born in North Carolina in 1813, hid in a crawlspace for many years and eventually escaped to New York City in 1842. ... Read more

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  • Self-Editing for Writers

    by Ann Jacobs ...
    Ann Jacobs, multi-published author of bestselling, award-winning novels and novellas, takes you step by step through the selfl-edits you need to perform before presenting your book or novella to a publisher, a freelance editor, or the world in general. ... Read more

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  • From Slavery to Freedom. Illustrated

    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk

    by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Booker Taliaferro Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    African American history is the part of American history that looks at the past of African Americans or Black Americans.Of the 10.7 million Africans who were brought to the Americas until the 1860s, 450 thousand were shipped to what is now the United States.Most African Americans are descended from Africans who were brought directly from Africa to America and became slaves. The future slaves were ... Read more

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  • Slave Narratives Mega Collection. 18 of the Most Moving & Telling Memoirs. Illustrated

    Twelve Years a Slave, Up From Slavery, From Slavery to Freedom and others

    by Solomon Northup, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, Olaudah Equiano, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Mary Prince, Charles Bal, Thomas H. Jones, Phillis Wheatley, William H. Robinson, Louis Hughes, Elizabeth Keckley, Josiah Henson, Old Elizabeth, Annie L. Burton, Lucy A. Delaney, Lunsford Lane, L. S. Thompson ...
    Slavery in the United States lasted more than two centuries. The adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in December 1865 abolished slavery after the American Civil War.The first slaves were forcibly removed from Africa by British slave traders beginning in the early 1600s.Redoshi, later renamed Sally Smith, was the last surviving female slave brought to the U.S. from Africa. ... Read more

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  • Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl : Written By Herself

    by Harriet Ann Jacobs ...
    Books for All Kinds of Readers Read HowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the letters. We partner with leading publishers around the globe. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers' new ... Read more

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  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    An Autobiographical Account of an Escaped Slave and Abolitionist

    by Harriet Ann Jacobs ...
    After hiding in her grandmother’s attic for seven years, Harriet Ann Jacobs was finally able to escape servitude-and her master’s sexual abuse-when she fled to the North. Once there, she became a very active abolitionist, and her correspondence with Harriet Beecher Stowe inspired her to write Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl about her years as a slave.She published the narrative in 1861 under ... Read more

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  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Illustrated and Annotated

    by Harriet Ann Jacobs ...
    Harriet Ann Jacobs (February 11, 1813 March 7, 1897) was an American writer, who escaped from the horrors of slavery and became an abolitionist speaker and reformer. Jacobs' single work, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, was one of the first autobiographical narratives about the struggle for freedom by female slaves and an account of the ... Read more

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  • Don't Mess with Me

    by Mary Ann Jacobs ...
    Series Book 1 - The Berkshires Mystery Series
    Sheriff Houtman, who left Boston to have a more peaceful career, finds himself faced with two murders, and he is challenged by a band of amateur sleuths who doubt his competence. Will his conclusions hold, or will he have to admit defeat? Unfortunately, Sheriff Houtman is quite infatuated with Sadie, a refugee from Lebanon who escaped ISIS. Robin George narrates the story. She is a widow with a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD