TrackChapterLength
0100 - Introduction6:12
0201 - Childhood8:43
0302 - The New Master and Mistress13:10
0403 - The Slaves' New Year's Day4:41
0504 - The Slave Who Dared to Feel Like a Man24:02
0605 - The Trials of Girlhood8:22
0706 - The Jealous Mistress14:23
0807 - The Lover14:58
0908 - What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North5:41
1009 - Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders17:52
1110 - A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life13:00
1211 - A New Tie to Life11:22
1312 - Fear of Insurrection11:36
1413 - The Church and Slavery18:21
1514 - Another Link to Life8:01
1615 - Continued Persecutions14:05
1716 - Scenes at the Plantation21:28
1817 - The Flight7:01
1918 - Months of Peril16:10
2019 - The Children Sold11:15
2120 - New Perils9:14
2221 - The Loophole of Retreat9:35
2322 - Christmas Festivities5:08
2423 - Still in Prison9:14
2524 - The Candidate for Congress6:14
2625 - Competition in Cunning11:12
2726 - Important Era in my Brother's Life9:33
2827 - New Destination for the Children15:29
2928 - Aunt Nancy11:33
3029 - Preparations for Escape19:01
3130 - Northward Bound7:03
3231 - Incidents in Philadelphia10:13
3332 - The Meeting of Mother and Daughter7:53
3433 - A Home Found6:19
3534 - The Old Enemy Again8:16
3635 - Prejudice Against Color5:33
3736 - The Hairsbreadth Escape10:53
3837 - A Visit to England6:10
3938 - Renewed Invitations to Go South4:37
4039 - The Confession4:20
4140 - The Fugitive Slave Law11:57
4241 - Free At Last15:51
4342 - Appendix5:03

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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EAN - DVD case 0683422134869
EAN - CD jacket 0686175924152
Media MP3 CD
Package DVD Case
Author Harriett Jacobs (1813 - 1897)
Year 1861
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Read by Elizabeth Klett
Length 7 hours and 41 minutes
Type of Reading Solo

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