Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself

Jacobs, Harriet

ISBN 10: 0140437959 / ISBN 13: 9780140437959

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2000

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One of the central firsthand accounts of slavery in America

A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation, Harriet Jacobs's classic narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published pseduonymously in 1861, tells firsthand of the horrors inflicted on slaves. In writing this extraordinary memoir, which culminates in the seven years she spent hiding in a crawl space in her grandmother's attic, Jacobs skillfully used the literary genres of her time, presenting a thoroughly feminist narrative that portrays the evils and traumas of slavery, particularly for women and children.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Nell Irvin Painter is the author of Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol and Standing at Armageddon, the United States, 1877-1919, The Narrative of Hosea Hudson andExodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction. She is Edwards Professor of History at Princeton University, where she currently heads the program in African-American Studies.

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Titel: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: ...
Verlag: Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
Einband: Paperback
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