About this title: This classic memoir of slave life, written by a highly-literate North Carolina slave, was first published at the beginning of the Civil War when Jacobs had escaped to the North and begun campaigning for abolition. Her narrative focused especially clearly on the ways that slavery degraded women through sexual abuse and the separation of mothers ...
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Description: Acceptable. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: DOVER PUBLICATIONS INC. Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780486419312ISBN:0486419312
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 176 pages. (176 pages) edition new ed (Paperback) read more
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 8.36 by 5 inches. [allow 1-2 weeks transit to europe]. (00176 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1990-11-29
ISBN-13:9780195066708ISBN:0195066707
Description: Good. Good; paperback. Clean, tight, & bright, with no tears; some highlighting & owner's stamp. From The Civil War Book Shop-As close as your computer; as dependable as old Abe. read more
Description: Fine. Not brand new but shows only light use, No remainder mark, No ex-library copy. (International orders to Mexico and Canada Only) read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"I read this on DailyLit and have to say that it is an amazing story. This is probably one of few autobiographical accounts of women in slavery and to watch the fire she has for freedom wax and wane through her trials and tribulations is something that I'm really thankful I got to partake in. I am in awe of her firm trust in God throughout her experiences and the confidence she had in the truth that all men and women are created equal even when everything around her was trying to tell her otherwise. A must read."
"Please don't hate me for giving this book only two stars. I am not a racist or anything, and I think that slavery was one of the worst things that we, as humans, have ever done. This book was wonderfully written. Harriet Ann Jacobs has a true gift with words. I was even reminded of Nabokov's writing, ha ha. But, come on, let's face it: this is so old. We've heard the stories and we know it already. I didn't even finish this book, cause I knew how it was going to end. This would be great if it's your first book of this sort, or if you haven't studied slavery. However, if you have done either of those, spend your time reading something better."
"She's amazing. We all know that slavery was an awful abomination, but hearing this firsthand account knocked the wind from me. I was stunned and deeply moved."
"I had read this narrative before, at least three different times, but the repeat reading only brings more of the details to the reader's attention. Since the previous readings were so long ago, I didn't remember too many of the details of the narrative. It was like I was reading Jacobs' story for the first time. Harriet Ann Jacobs is very deliberate in her language and the way she acts as supplicator and judge. The complexity of the language is often overshadowed by the "flowery" writing of the time period. Jacobs is a complex individual and narrator who tells the story from the first person perspective of Linda Brent, a fictional pseudonym. Even though I read Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl for a graduate American literature course, I was inspired to write a research paper about Jacobs' story and present it at a literature conference. This narrative enlightens the reader on many levels and offers a critical examination of one of America's darkest periods of history-- African American slavery."
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