Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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  • TitelIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
  • VerlagSimon & Schuster N.Y.
  • EinbandartSoftcover
  • Seiten256
CHF27.05
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  • Montag, 27.11.2023 bei Heimlieferung
  • Montag, 27.11.2023 bei Abholung

Produktebeschrieb

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Produktbeschreibung

After hiding in her grandmother's attic for seven years, Harriet Ann Jacobs was finally able to escape servitude-and her master's sexual abuse-when she fled to the North. Once there, she became a very active abolitionist, and her correspondence with Harriet Beecher Stowe inspired her to write Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl about her years as a slave.

She published the narrative in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, and the book was written as a novel with fictionalized characters to protect Jacobs from retribution by her former owners. (Dr. Flint, i.e., the real Dr. James Norcom, is Linda Brent's master in the novel.) The story emphasized certain negative aspects of slavery-especially the struggles of female slaves under sexually abusive masters, cruel mistresses, and the sale of their children-in order to play on the sympathies of white middle-class women in the North.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was published at the beginning of the American Civil War. It contributed to the Union's and abolitionists' war effort, but is today seen as an important first-hand account from an escaped slave woman and an important abolitionist. After the Civil War, Jacobs continued to support the African-American cause, particularly education, until her death in 1897.

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Titel & Produktsprache

TitelIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
UntertitelAn Autobiographical Account of an Escaped Slave and Abolitionist
SpracheEnglisch
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Titel & Produktsprache

TitelIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
UntertitelAn Autobiographical Account of an Escaped Slave and Abolitionist
SpracheEnglisch

Autoren & Verlag

Autor/-inHarriet Ann Jacobs
VerlagSimon & Schuster N.Y.

Auflage & Publikationsort

Erscheinungsjahr2015

Buch Eigenschaften

EinbandartSoftcover
Seiten256
ThemenbereichRomanhafte Biographien

Produktdimensionen

Gewicht311 g
Höhe22.9 cm
Breite15.2 cm
Dicke2 cm

ISBN

ISBN978-1-63220-455-4

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