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Harriet Ann Jacobs

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

An Autobiographical Account of an Escaped Slave and Abolitionist

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After hiding in her grandmother's attic for seven years, Harriet Ann Jacobs was finally able to escape servitude-and her master's sexual abuse-when she fled to the North. Once there, she became a very active abolitionist, and her correspondence with Harriet Beecher Stowe inspired her to write Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl about her years as a slave.She published the narrative in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, and the book was written as a novel with fictionalized characters to protect Jacobs from retribution by her former owners. (Dr. Flint, i.e., the real Dr. James Norcom, is Linda Brent's master in the novel.) The story empha… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-63220-931-3
  • EAN: 9781632209313
  • Produktnummer: 22302769
  • Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 240 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'273 KB

Über den Autor


Harriet Ann Jacobs was born a slave in 1813 in Edenton, North Carolina. She escaped captivity in 1842, and was formally freed in 1852. After corresponding with Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Ann Jacobs was inspired to write her life story. After playing an active role in the antislavery movement, she died in Washington, D.C., in 1897.

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