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Best Selling Books by Ann JacobsAnn Jacobs is the author of Profiles of Patriots: A Biographical Reference of American Revolutionary War Patriots and their Descendants (2013), 12 Tears of a Slave: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (2014), P. A. Jacobs, or, Exalted Piety in Humble Life, Peril in Pittman (2024), Action Research in the Classroom (2016).
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Profiles of Patriots: A Biographical Reference of American Revolutionary War Patriots and their Descendants
release date: Aug 01, 2013
12 Tears of a Slave: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
release date: Feb 01, 2014
P. A. Jacobs, or, Exalted Piety in Humble Life
release date: Sep 23, 2024
Action Research in the Classroom
release date: Apr 06, 2016
release date: Apr 28, 2019
The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers
release date: Jan 01, 2008
release date: Jan 01, 2006
The Role of the Corporate Farm in United States, Mountain States, and Colorado Agriculture
release date: Nov 01, 2006
Quick Reference Guide to Microsoft Word for the Apple Macintosh
release date: Jan 01, 1989
Effects of Sensory Feedback on the Central Pattern Generator in the Crayfish Swimmeret System
release date: Jan 01, 1991
Metal Geochemistry in Anoxic Marine Basins
A Short Walk in the Woods
release date: Apr 13, 2024
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 1861
release date: Sep 17, 2017
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an autobiography by a young mother and fugitive slave published in 1861 by L. Maria Child, who edited the book for its author, Harriet Ann Jacobs. Jacobs used the pseudonym Linda Brent. The book documents Jacobs'' life as a slave and how she gained freedom for herself and for her children. Jacobs contributed to the genre of slave narrative by using the techniques of sentimental novels "to address race and gender issues. She explores the struggles and sexual abuse that female slaves faced on plantations as well as their efforts to practice motherhood and protect their children when their children might be sold away.... Plot summary: Born into slavery in Edenton, NC in 1813, Linda has happy years as a young child with her brother, parents, and maternal grandmother, who are relatively well-off slaves in good positions. It is not until her mother dies that Linda even begins to understand that she is a slave. At the age of six, she is sent to live in the big house under the extended care of her mother''s mistress, who treats her well and teaches her to read. After a few years, this mistress dies and bequeaths Linda to a relative. Her new masters are cruel and neglectful, and Dr. Flint, the father, takes an interest in Linda. He tries to force her into a sexual relationship with him when she comes of age. The girl resists his entreaties and maintains her distance. Knowing that Flint will do anything to get his way, as a young woman Linda consents to a relationship with a white neighbor, Mr. Sands, hoping he can protect her from Flint. As a result of their relations, Sands and Linda have two mixed-race children: Benjamin, often called Benny, and Ellen. Because they were born to a slave mother, they are considered slaves, under the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, which had been part of southern slave law since the 17th century. Linda is ashamed, but hopes this illegitimate relationship will protect her from assault at the hands of Dr. Flint. Linda also hopes that Flint would become angry enough to sell her to Sands, but he refuses to do so. Instead, he sends Linda to his son''s plantation to be broken in as a field hand. When Linda discovers that Benny and Ellen are also to be sent to the fields, she makes a desperate plan. Escaping to the North with two small children would be nearly impossible. Unwilling either to submit to Dr. Flint''s abuse or abandon her family, she hides in the attic of her grandmother Aunt Martha''s cabin. She hopes that Dr. Flint, believing that she has fled to the North, will sell her children rather than risk having them escape as well. Linda is overjoyed when Dr. Flint sells Benny and Ellen to a slave trader secretly representing Sands. Promising to free the children one day, Sands assigns them to live with Aunt Martha. Linda becomes physically debilitated by being confined to the tiny attic, where she can neither sit nor stand. Her only pleasure is to watch her children through a tiny peephole. Mr. Sands marries and is elected as a congressman. When he takes the slave girl Ellen to Washington, D.C., to be an eventual companion for his newborn daughter, Linda realizes that he may never free their children. Worried that he will eventually sell them, she determines to escape with them to the North. But Dr. Flint continues to hunt for her, and leaving the attic is still too risky...... Harriet Ann Jacobs (February 11, 1813 - March 7, 1897) was an African-American writer who escaped from slavery and was later freed. She became an abolitionist speaker and reformer. Jacobs wrote an autobiographical novel, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, first serialized in a newspaper and published as a book in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent............
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Ann Jacobs
release date: Aug 08, 2016
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release date: Jun 09, 2009
From Psychic to Psychotic and Beyond
release date: Jan 01, 2012
Everyday Easy & Natural Cooking from 200 Calories: 132 Gourmet Recipes with Complete Nutritional Information (Full-Color Edition)
release date: Dec 01, 2011
release date: Oct 01, 2006
release date: Apr 01, 2007
release date: Apr 01, 2006
release date: Jan 01, 1998
Twelve Years a Slave and Other Slave Narratives
release date: Jan 01, 2015
From Slavery to Freedom (Illustrated)
release date: Jan 01, 2020
Narrative History of Buffalo Creek and Buffalo Park, Jefferson County, Colorado
County Resource/land Use Planning Activities in the United States
release date: Jan 01, 1991
County Planing in the United States
The Effects of Item Preexposure on Work Activity Preference Ratings
release date: Jan 01, 1991
release date: Jan 01, 2007
release date: Jan 01, 1987
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