Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Written by Herself, Enlarged Edition

Now with "A True Tale of Slavery" by John S. Jacobs

Harriet A. Jacobs

Edited by Jean Fagan Yellin

John S. Jacobs

    List of Illustrations

    Introduction by Jean Fagan

    Cast of Characters

    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    Preface by the Author

    Introduction by the Editor

    I. Childhood

    II. The New Master and Mistress

    III. The Slaves' New Year's Day

    IV. The Slave Who Dared to Feel like a Man

    V. The Trials of Girlhood

    VI. The Jealous Mistress

    VII. The Lover

    VIII. What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North

    IX. Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders

    X. A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life

    XI. The New Tie to Life

    XII. Fear of Insurrection

    XIII. The Church and Slavery

    XIV. Another Link to Life

    XV. Continued Persecutions

    XVI. Scenes at the Plantation

    XVII. The Flight

    XVIII. Months of Peril

    XIX. The Children Sold

    XX. New Perils

    XXI. The Loophole of Retreat

    XXII. Christmas Festivities

    XXIII. Still in Prison

    XXIV. The Candidate for Congress

    XXV. Competition in Cunning

    XXVI. Important Era in My Brother's Life

    XXVII. New Destination for the Children XXVIII Aunt Nancy

    XXIX. Preparations for Escape

    XXX. Northward Bound

    XXXI. Incidents in Philadelphia

    XXXII. The Meeting of Mother and Daughter

    XXXIII. A Home Found

    XXXIV. The Old Enemy Again

    XXXV. Prejudice against Color

    XXXVI. The Hairbreadth Escape

    XXXVII. A Visit to England

    XXXVIII. Renewed Invitations to Go South

    XXXIX. The Confession

    XL. The Fugitive Slave Law

    XLI. Free at Last

    Appendix

    I. Some Account of My Early Die

    II. A Further Account of My Family

    III. My Uncle's Troubles

    IV. My New Master's Plantation

    V. My Master Goes to Washington

    VI. Sensations of Freedom

    VII. Cruel Treatment of Slaves

    Illustrations

    Abbreviations

    Chronology

    Correspondence

    Notes

    Acknowledgments

    Index

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Jean Fagan Yellin is Distinguished Professor Emerita, Department of English, Pace University, the author of Harriet Jacobs: A Life, and the editor of The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers.