Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
Harriet Jacobs
43 chapters · 7 h 47 min · English
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Memoirs
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Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to freedom in the north, and her ensuing struggles to free her children. The narrative was partly serialized in the New York Tribune, but was discontinued because Jacobs' depictions of the sexual abuse of female slaves were considered too shocking. It was published in book form in 1861. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett).
Chapters
1 Introduction 6 min 2 Childhood 9 min 3 The New Master and Mistress 13 min 4 The Slaves' New Year's Day 5 min 5 The Slave Who Dared to Feel Like a Man 24 min 6 The Trials of Girlhood 8 min 7 The Jealous Mistress 14 min 8 The Lover 15 min 9 What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North 6 min 10 Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders 18 min 11 A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life 13 min 12 A New Tie to Life 11 min 13 Fear of Insurrection 12 min 14 The Church and Slavery 18 min 15 Another Link to Life 8 min 16 Continued Persecutions 14 min 17 Scenes at the Plantation 22 min 18 The Flight 7 min 19 Months of Peril 16 min 20 The Children Sold 11 min 21 New Perils 9 min 22 The Loophole of Retreat 10 min 23 Christmas Festivities 5 min 24 Still in Prison 9 min 25 The Candidate for Congress 6 min 26 Competition in Cunning 11 min 27 Important Era in my Brother's Life 10 min 28 New Destination for the Children 16 min 29 Aunt Nancy 12 min 30 Preparations for Escape 19 min 31 Northward Bound 7 min 32 Incidents in Philadelphia 10 min 33 The Meeting of Mother and Daughter 8 min 34 A Home Found 6 min 35 The Old Enemy Again 8 min 36 Prejudice Against Color 6 min 37 The Hairsbreadth Escape 11 min 38 A Visit to England 6 min 39 Renewed Invitations to Go South 5 min 40 The Confession 5 min 41 The Fugitive Slave Law 12 min 42 Free At Last 16 min 43 Appendix 5 min
