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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Jacobs, Harriet

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Condition
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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Binding
Paperback
Weight
0 lbs
Product Group
Book
IsTextBook
No
ISBN
1503277941
Book Title
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Item Length
9in
Publisher
CreateSpace
Publication Year
2014
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.3in
Author
Harriet Jacobs
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Fiction
Topic
Slavery, Women, Classics
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
9.5 Oz
Number of Pages
140 Pages

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a slave narrative that was published in 1861 by Harriet Ann Jacobs, using the pen name "Linda Brent." The book is an in-depth chronological account of Jacobs's life as a slave, and the decisions and choices she made to gain freedom for herself and her children. It addresses the struggles and sexual abuse that young women slaves faced on the plantations, and how these struggles were harsher than what men suffered as slaves. The book is considered sentimental and written to provoke an emotional response and sympathy from the reader toward slavery in general and slave women in particular[citation needed] for their struggles with rape, the pressure to have sex at an early age, the selling of their children, and the treatment of female slaves by their mistresses.Jacobs began composing Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl while living and working at Idlewild, the Hudson River home of writer and publisher Nathaniel Parker Willis, who was fictionalized in the book as Mr. Bruce. Portions of the book were published in serial form in the New-York Tribune, owned and edited by Horace Greeley. Jacobs's reports of sexual abuse were considered too shocking to the average newspaper reader of the day, and publication ceased before the completion of the narrative.Boston publishing house Phillips and Samson agreed to print the work in book form if Jacobs could convince Willis or Harriet Beecher Stowe to provide a preface. She refused to ask Willis for help and Stowe turned her down, though the Phillips and Samson company closed anyway. She eventually managed to sign an agreement with the Thayer & Eldridge publishing house and they requested a preface by Lydia Maria Child. Child also edited the book and the company introduced her to Jacobs. The two women remained in contact for much of their remaining lives. Thayer & Eldridge, however, declared bankruptcy before the narrative could be published.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
CreateSpace
ISBN-10
1503277941
ISBN-13
9781503277946
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234700701

Product Key Features

Book Title
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Author
Harriet Jacobs
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Slavery, Women, Classics
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Fiction
Number of Pages
140 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
9.5 Oz

Additional Product Features

Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
306./62092 B
Dewey Edition
23

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