Incidents in the Life of a Slave GirlHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 1973 - 210 стор. 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. Edited by L. Maria Child; Introduction by Walter Teller. |
Зміст
Childhood 37 | 3 |
The New Master and Mistress | 7 |
The Slaves New Years Day | 13 |
The Slave Who Dared to Feel Like a Man | 15 |
The Trials of Girlhood | 26 |
The Jealous Mistress | 29 |
The Lover | 36 |
What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North | 42 |
Still in Prison | 123 |
The Candidate for Congress | 127 |
Competition in Cunning | 130 |
Important Era in My Brothers Life | 135 |
New Destination for the Children | 139 |
Aunt Nancy | 146 |
Preparations for Escape | 151 |
Northward Bound | 160 |
Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders | 45 |
A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girls Life | 53 |
The New Tie to Life | 59 |
Fear of Insurrection | 64 |
The Church and Slavery | 69 |
Another Link to Life | 78 |
Continued Persecutions | 81 |
Scenes at the Plantation | 87 |
The Flight | 97 |
Months of Peril | 100 |
The Children Sold | 107 |
New Perils | 112 |
The Loophole of Retreat | 117 |
Christmas Festivities | 121 |
Incidents in Philadelphia | 164 |
The Meeting of Mother and Daughter | 169 |
A Home Found | 172 |
The Old Enemy Again | 175 |
Prejudice Against Color | 179 |
The Hairbreadth Escape | 182 |
A Visit to England | 187 |
Renewed Invitations to Go South | 190 |
The Confession | 192 |
The Fugitive Slave Law | 194 |
Free at Last | 200 |
Appendix | 209 |
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