Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By Harriet Ann Jacobs

Published 1861
Pub. for the Author

302 pages

Original from Harvard University

Digitized Jun 28, 2007

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Key words and phrases

CHILDHOOD	11
marthy, mistress, flint
THE SLAVES NEW YEARS DAY	25
jamin, benjamin, trader
THE TRIALS OF GIRLHOOD	44
bloodhounds, girlhood, mistress
THE LOVER	58
bloodhounds, nigger, slaveholders
SKETCHES OF NEIGHBORING SLAVEHOLDERS	71
slaveholders, litch, plantation
THE NEW TIE TO LIFE	90
niggers, ored, insurrection

THE CHURCH AND SLAVERY	105
bress, slavery, thirsting
CONTINUED PERSECUTIONS	122
plantation, benny, fanny
THE PLIGHT	145
benefactress, betty, housemaids
THE CHILDREN SOLD	160
gwine, speculator, betty
lo Contents	179
glaus, storeroom, emancipating
COMPETITION IN CUNNING	193
aggie, whar, abolitionists
NEW DESTINATION FOR THE CHILDREN	207
ellen, sands, brooklyn
PREPARATIONS FOR ESCAPE	221
aggie, marthy, fanny
THE CONFESSION	282
laft, runned, fugitive
APPENDIX	304
hunters, oppressed, narrative