Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet JACOBS | Full Audio Book

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet JACOBS (1813 - 1897) Genre(s): Memoirs Read by: Elizabeth Klett in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 00 - Introduction 00:06:20 - 01 - Childhood 00:15:12 - 02 - The New Master and Mistress 00:28:31 - 03 - The Slaves' New Year's Day 00:33:19 - 04 - The Slave Who Dared to Feel Like a Man 00:57:30 - 05 - The Trials of Girlhood 01:05:59 - 06 - The Jealous Mistress 01:20:30 - 07 - The Lover 01:35:36 - 08 - What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North 01:41:24 - 09 - Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders 01:59:16 - 10 - A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life 02:12:24 - 11 - A New Tie to Life 02:23:53 - 12 - Fear of Insurrection 02:35:38 - 13 - The Church and Slavery 02:54:08 - 14 - Another Link to Life 03:02:08 - 15 - Continued Persecutions 03:16:16 - 16 - Scenes at the Plantation 03:37:56 - 17 - The Flight 03:45:08 - 18 - Months of Peril 04:01:31 - 19 - The Children Sold 04:12:58 - 20 - New Perils 04:22:22 - 21 - The Loophole of Retreat 04:32:08 - 22 - Christmas Festivities 04:37:24 - 23 - Still in Prison 04:46:48 - 24 - The Candidate for Congress 04:53:12 - 25 - Competition in Cunning 05:04:34 - 26 - Important Era in my Brother's Life 05:14:16 - 27 - New Destination for the Children 05:29:54 - 28 - Aunt Nancy 05:41:36 - 29 - Preparations for Escape 06:00:48 - 30 - Northward Bound 06:08:01 - 31 - Incidents in Philadelphia 06:18:24 - 32 - The Meeting of Mother and Daughter 06:26:26 - 33 - A Home Found 06:32:54 - 34 - The Old Enemy Again 06:41:20 - 35 - Prejudice Against Color 06:47:02 - 36 - The Hairsbreadth Escape 06:58:04 - 37 - A Visit to England 07:04:23 - 38 - Renewed Invitations to Go South 07:09:09 - 39 - The Confession 07:13:40 - 40 - The Fugitive Slave Law 07:25:46 - 41 - Free At Last 07:41:47 - 42 - Appendix Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to freedom in the north, and her ensuing struggles to free her children. The narrative was partly serialized in the New York Tribune, but was discontinued because Jacobs' depictions of the sexual abuse of female slaves were considered too shocking. It was published in book form in 1861. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett). More information: http://librivox.org/incidents-in-the-...