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Title details for Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs - Available

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

by Harriet Jacobs
Lisa Reneé Pitts
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Published in 1861, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an autobiographical account of the author's experiences as a slave in nineteenth-century North Carolina, from her relatively happy childhood to the brutality she experienced as a teenager and young woman to her eventual escape to the North. One of the few slave narratives written by a woman, Jacobs's work deals frankly with the horrors of slavery, shedding light on the abuses female slaves in particular often endured at the hands of their masters. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a gripping, unflinchingly honest account of slavery, one that stands as an important counterpoint to male slave narratives by such authors as Frederick Douglass.

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  • Release date

    June 30, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781452622538
      • File size: 259878 KB
      • Duration: 09:01:24

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 740
    • Text Difficulty: 3-4

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      From 1861, come these recollections of a slave who works on a plantation in North Carolina. Her owner beats her, throws her down stairs, and rapes her at every chance. Jacobs's tale of escape makes for an enlightening odyssey. The sophistication of the narrative has led some to speculate the author was a "white writer." This transition from page to audio emphasizes the implausibility of the provenance. Narrator Elizabeth Klett employs no Southern accent and makes only two brief attempts to imitate the vocabulary or speech patterns of antebellum blacks. Klett uses a soft voice to portray the main character, as well as a young mother who interacts with her children, and changes to a gruff voice to depict the cruel master. Between chapters we hear scratchy recordings of sorrowful songs like "Old Black Joe." J.A.H. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:740
  • Text Difficulty:3-4

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