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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
By Harriet Jacobs 
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CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1: Childhood

Chapter 2: The New Mistress

Chapter 3: The Slaves' New Year's Day 

Chapter 4: The Slave Who Dared to Feel Like a Man 

Chapter 5: The Trials of Girlhood 

Chapter 6: The Jealous Mistress 

Chapter 7: The Lover 

Chapter 8: What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North

Chapter 9: Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders 

Chapter 10: A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life 

Chapter 11: The New Tie to Life 

Chapter 12: Fear of Insurrection 

Chapter 13: The Church and Slavery 

Chapter 14: Another Link to Life 

Chapter 15: Continued Persecutions 

Chapter 16: Scenes at the Plantation 

Chapter 17: The Flight 

Chapter 18: Months of Peril 

Chapter 19: The Children Sold 

Chapter 20: New Perils 

Chapter 21: The Loophole of Retreat 

Chapter 22: Christmas Festivities

Chapter 23: Still in Prison

Chapter 24: The Candidate for Congress

Chapter 25: Competition in Cunning

Chapter 26: Important Era in My Brother's Life

Chapter 27: New Destination for the Children

Chapter 28: Aunt Nancy 

Chapter 29: Preparations for Escape

Chapter 30: Northward Bound

Chapter 31: Incidents in Philadelphia

Chapter 32: The Meeting of Mother and Daughter

Chapter 33: A Home Found

Chapter 34: The Old Enemy Again

Chapter 35: Prejudice Against Color

Chapter 36: The Hair-Breadth Escape

Chapter 37: A Visit to England

Chapter 38: Renewed Invitation to Go South

Chapter 39: The Confession

Chapter 40: The Fugitive Slave Law

Chapter 41: Free at Last

Appendix

 


 

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