Track | Chapter | Length |
01 | 00 - Introduction | 6:12 |
02 | 01 - Childhood | 8:43 |
03 | 02 - The New Master and Mistress | 13:10 |
04 | 03 - The Slaves' New Year's Day | 4:41 |
05 | 04 - The Slave Who Dared to Feel Like a Man | 24:02 |
06 | 05 - The Trials of Girlhood | 8:22 |
07 | 06 - The Jealous Mistress | 14:23 |
08 | 07 - The Lover | 14:58 |
09 | 08 - What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North | 5:41 |
10 | 09 - Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders | 17:52 |
11 | 10 - A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life | 13:00 |
12 | 11 - A New Tie to Life | 11:22 |
13 | 12 - Fear of Insurrection | 11:36 |
14 | 13 - The Church and Slavery | 18:21 |
15 | 14 - Another Link to Life | 8:01 |
16 | 15 - Continued Persecutions | 14:05 |
17 | 16 - Scenes at the Plantation | 21:28 |
18 | 17 - The Flight | 7:01 |
19 | 18 - Months of Peril | 16:10 |
20 | 19 - The Children Sold | 11:15 |
21 | 20 - New Perils | 9:14 |
22 | 21 - The Loophole of Retreat | 9:35 |
23 | 22 - Christmas Festivities | 5:08 |
24 | 23 - Still in Prison | 9:14 |
25 | 24 - The Candidate for Congress | 6:14 |
26 | 25 - Competition in Cunning | 11:12 |
27 | 26 - Important Era in my Brother's Life | 9:33 |
28 | 27 - New Destination for the Children | 15:29 |
29 | 28 - Aunt Nancy | 11:33 |
30 | 29 - Preparations for Escape | 19:01 |
31 | 30 - Northward Bound | 7:03 |
32 | 31 - Incidents in Philadelphia | 10:13 |
33 | 32 - The Meeting of Mother and Daughter | 7:53 |
34 | 33 - A Home Found | 6:19 |
35 | 34 - The Old Enemy Again | 8:16 |
36 | 35 - Prejudice Against Color | 5:33 |
37 | 36 - The Hairsbreadth Escape | 10:53 |
38 | 37 - A Visit to England | 6:10 |
39 | 38 - Renewed Invitations to Go South | 4:37 |
40 | 39 - The Confession | 4:20 |
41 | 40 - The Fugitive Slave Law | 11:57 |
42 | 41 - Free At Last | 15:51 |
43 | 42 - Appendix | 5:03 |
Notes
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Read by: Elizabeth Klett
Book Coordinator: Elizabeth Klett
Meta Coordinator: J. M. Smallheer
Proof Listener: Ans Wink
Artwork
Cover: Photo of Harriet Jacobs, 1894, from Google Books scan.
Inset: Newspaper advertisement seeking the return of Harriet Jacobs to her owners.
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was one of the first books in the slave narrative genre that spoke to the issues of sexual harassment and abuse faced by slave women. The book is addressed to northern white women, with the underlying message that abuse of female slaves by white male masters is corrosive to the family and marriage unit. Jacobs was urged to write her life story by her friend Amy Post and suggested she contact Harriet Beecher Stowe for help. When Stowe suggested instead that the story be part of Stowe’s own work, Jacobs started on her own account, writing secretly at night in the nursery of the home of her employer. It was serialized in the New York Tribune and then published in 1861 in book form by Thayer and Eldridge under the pseudonym Linda Brent to protect the identity of its author, who was subject to capture and return to her owner under the terms of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Names of all the key characters were changed to protect them from harm. The release of the book in 1861 met with favorable reviews but coincided with the onset of the Civil War and the bankruptcy of the publisher, suppressing awareness and demand. After the war it was considered a novel due to the use of the pseudonym. Interest was revived in the 1970’s and 1980’s when scholar Jean Fagan Yellin confirmed the identity of the author and historians began to better understand the connection to feminist issues.
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Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0683422134869 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0686175924152 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | DVD Case |
Author | Harriett Jacobs (1813 - 1897) |
Year | 1861 |
Recording | |
Read by | Elizabeth Klett |
Length | 7 hours and 41 minutes |
Type of Reading | Solo |
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- Author: Harriet Jacobs
- Product Code: DB-1167
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