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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

Name: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
Author: Harriet A. Jacobs

Harriet A. Jacobs

Read by Elizabeth Klett · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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Chapters

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00 - Introduction (6:20)
01 - Childhood (8:52)
02 - The New Master and Mistress (13:19)
03 - The Slaves' New Year's Day (4:48)
04 - The Slave Who Dared to Feel Like a Man (24:10)
05 - The Trials of Girlhood (8:29)
06 - The Jealous Mistress (14:30)
07 - The Lover (15:06)
08 - What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North (5:48)
09 - Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders (17:52)
10 - A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life (13:08)
11 - A New Tie to Life (11:29)
12 - Fear of Insurrection (11:44)
13 - The Church and Slavery (18:30)
14 - Another Link to Life (8:00)
15 - Continued Persecutions (14:08)
16 - Scenes at the Plantation (21:40)
17 - The Flight (7:12)
18 - Months of Peril (16:22)
19 - The Children Sold (11:27)
20 - New Perils (9:24)
21 - The Loophole of Retreat (9:46)
22 - Christmas Festivities (5:16)
23 - Still in Prison (9:24)
24 - The Candidate for Congress (6:24)
25 - Competition in Cunning (11:22)
26 - Important Era in my Brother's Life (9:42)
27 - New Destination for the Children (15:38)
28 - Aunt Nancy (11:42)
29 - Preparations for Escape (19:12)
30 - Northward Bound (7:12)
31 - Incidents in Philadelphia (10:23)
32 - The Meeting of Mother and Daughter (8:02)
33 - A Home Found (6:28)
34 - The Old Enemy Again (8:26)
35 - Prejudice Against Color (5:41)
36 - The Hairsbreadth Escape (11:01)
37 - A Visit to England (6:19)
38 - Renewed Invitations to Go South (4:46)
39 - The Confession (4:31)
40 - The Fugitive Slave Law (12:06)
41 - Free At Last (16:00)
42 - Appendix (5:10)

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