Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Jacobs

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Modern Library Inc
13 April 2021

Biography: general

The most famous autobiography written by a nineteenth-century African American woman, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a triumph of American literature and the unflinching narrative that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of African-American women

The unflinching nineteenth-century autobiography that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of Black women-with an introduction by Tiya Miles, author of All That She Carried and National Book Award finalist

"" A

crowning achievement . . .

Jacobs

remodeled the forms of the black slave narrative and the white female sentimental novel to create a new literary form-a narrative at once black and female."" -Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The New York Times

In clear and unshrinking prose, Harriet Jacobs-writing under the pseudonym Linda Brent-relates the story of her girlhood and adolescence as a slave in North Carolina and her eventual escape- a bildungsroman set in the complex terrain of a chauvinist, white supremacist society. Resolutely addressing women readers, rather than men, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl seeks to make white women understand how the threat of sexual violence shapes the lives of enslaved Black women and children. Equalparts brave and searing, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a triumph of American literature.

The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance. AMERICAN INDIAN STORIES . THE AWAKENING . THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY . THE HEADS OF CERBERUS . LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET . LOVE, ANGER, MADNESS . PASSING . THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER . THERE IS CONFUSION . THE TRANSFORMATION OF PHILIP JETTAN . VILLETTE

By: Harriet Jacobs
Imprint: Modern Library Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm,
ISBN: 9780593230367
ISBN 10: 0593230361
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 13 April 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) was born into slavery in North Carolina. She became a mother at sixteen, a fugitive slave at twenty-two, and, in January 1861 at the age of forty-eight, the author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. During the Civil War, Jacobs and her daughter, Louisa, returned to the South to aid African American refugees. Following the Civil War, they built an orphanage and home for African American children and elders in Savannah, Georgia.

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