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Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Linda Brent. Edited by L. Maria Child. New introduction and notes by Walter Teller.
LIBRA - Rare E444 .J17 1973 Banks copy
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Van Pelt Library E444 .J17 1973
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897.
- Series:
- Harvest book ; HB245.
- A Harvest book ; HB245
- Harvest/HBJ Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897.
- Jacobs, Harriet A.
- Enslaved persons--United States--Social conditions.
- Enslaved persons.
- United States.
- Social conditions.
- Enslaved persons--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 210 pages : facsimile ; 21 c.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1973]
- Contents:
- Childhood
- The New Master and Mistress
- The Slaves' New Year's Day
- The Slave Who Dared to Feel Like a Man
- The Trials of Girlhood
- The Jealous Mistress
- The Lover
- What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North
- Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders
- A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life
- The New Tie to Life
- Fear of Insurrection
- The Church and Slavery
- Another Link to Life
- Continued Persecution
- Scenes at the Plantation
- The Flight
- Months of Peril
- The Children Sold
- New Perils
- The Loophole of Retreat
- Christmas Festivities
- Still in Prison
- The Candidate for Congress
- Competition in Cunning
- Important Era in My Brother's Life
- New Destination for the Children
- Aunt Nancy
- Preparations for Escape
- Northward Bound
- Incidents in Philadelphia
- The Meeting of Mother and Daughter
- A Home Found
- The Old Enemy Again
- Prejudice Against Color
- The Hairbreadth Escape
- Visit to England
- Renewed Invitation to Go South
- The Confession
- The Fugitive Slave Law
- Free at Last.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0156443503
- OCLC:
- 689343
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