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Incidents in the life of a slave girl

Incidents in the life of a slave girl. Written by Harriet Jacobs and edited by Linda Brent. Harriet Jacobs. Rise up, ye women that are at ease! Hear my voice, ye careless daughters! Give ear unto my speech. -Isaiah xxxii.9. Childhood. Born as a slave

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Incidents in the life of a slave girl

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  1. Incidents in the life of a slave girl Written by Harriet Jacobs and edited by Linda Brent

  2. Harriet Jacobs Rise up, ye women that are at ease! Hear my voice, ye careless daughters! Give ear unto my speech. -Isaiah xxxii.9

  3. Childhood • Born as a slave • “Never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.”

  4. New Master and Mistress • “You’re my child,” Replied our father, “And when I call you, you should come immediately, if you have to pass through fire and water.” • Her suffering after words, became so intense her mistress felt unable to stay.

  5. The slaves New Years Day • Then comes New Years Eve; and they gather together their little alls, or more properly speaking, their little nothings, and wait anxiously for the dawning of day.

  6. The slave who dared to feel like a man • “She don’t belong to me, she is my daughters property and I have no right to sell her.” • “I have come: Said Benjamin, “To tell you good by.” “I am going away.”

  7. The Trials of Girlhood • Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow: but in slavery the very dawn thee shadows. • That which commands admiration in the White woman only hastens the degradation of the female Slave.

  8. The Jealous Mistress • Perhaps she had some touch of feeling for me; for when the conference was ended. She spoke kindly, and promised to protect me. • My mistress grew weary of her vigils; they did not prove satisfactory.

  9. The Lover • Where laughter is not heard; nor thought the mind; nor words and language; nor e’en mankind. Where enemies reply to curses, Shrieks to blows, and each is tortured in his separate hell. • If he is a puppy I am a puppy, for we’re both of the Negro race.

  10. A perilous passage in a slave girls life. • But, o yea happy women whose purity has been sheltered from childhood who have been free to choose the objects of your affection, whose homes are protected by law, do not judge the poor desolate slave girl.

  11. The new tie to life • He raised hand to strike me; but it fell again. • It was a sad thought that I had no name. to give my child.

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