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Incidents in the life of a slave girl
—Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897, author.
1983

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An authentic autobiographical account of slave life in the South from the 1820s to the 1840s. To escape sexual exploitation by her master, Brent ran away and hid in an attic crawl space that became her home for seven years of unbelievable physical hardship.

Item Details

ISBN:

  • 9780156443500
  • 0156443503

Description: xiv, 210 pages ; 21 cm.

Notes:

  • Linda Brent[Harriet Jacobs] was born a slave in North Carolina around 1813 and became a fugitive in the 1830s. Although her life as a slave in the American South and her fugitive years in the northeast are well-documented, little is known of her later life. She died in 1897.
  • Nonfiction.
  • Originally published: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. (A Harvest book ; HB245)
  • Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.1 14 179006.

LCCN: 83008401

Control Number: 3194193

Publisher: San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1983]
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