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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet A. Jacobs; A True Tale of Slavery, by John S. Jacobs
Contributor(s): Hendrick, George (Editor), Hendrick, Willene (Editor)

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ISBN: 1881089657     ISBN-13: 9781881089650
Publisher: Brandywine Press
OUR PRICE: $35.65  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 1999
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
Dewey: B
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" L (0.65 lbs) 208 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 179006
Reading Level: 7.1   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 14.0
 
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Publisher Description:
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.
 
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