incidents in the life of a slave girl

• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, education and abolition.

Some thirty years before Harriet Ann Jacobs opened the Jacobs Free School in Alexandria, Virginia in January 1864, one of her first students was her f...

• Ethnic Studies Review
• Vol. 32 Nbr. 2, December 2009

• Motherhood As Resistance in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By emphasizing her narrator's maternal sentiments, Jacobs resists prevailing beliefs concerning black women's indifference to their children while also establishing an important association between her protagonist Linda Brent and domestic ideologies.1 Much like Harriet Beecher Stowe and other nineteenthcentury writers of sentimental fiction, Jacobs describes "nurture as a quintessence of the maternal that crosses race and class boundaries" (Stephanie Smith 215).

• Legacy
• Vol. 23 Nbr. 1, April 2006

• Harriet Jacobs Comes to Steppenwolf Theatre

Nominated for "Choir of the Year" and "Traditional Choir of the Year," The Tommies Reunion will celebrate the release of the highly anticipated follow-up CD SIDE B. The live recording also has a full length concert DVD compilation. He has come full circle with The Tommies Reunion, which features former members of The Thompson Community Singers. It was with the "original" Tommies and the late Rev. Milton Branson that [Darius Brooks] began his award-winning career. The scholarship program, formerly entitled the "Brothers on the Move Scholarship," has been renamed the "Hercules Scholars" in honor of Joyner's father who passed away in October 2007. On average, only 37 percent of Black males are enrolled at an HBCU Based on the life of Harriet Jacobs, and her autobiographical novel Incidents...

... novel Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, this production runs Feb. 5-March 2 in the S...

• Chicago Defender
• August 22, 2009

• Yellin, Jean Fagan. Harriet Jacobs; a life; the remarkable adventures of the woman who wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

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• Kliatt
• Vol. 39 Nbr. 3, May 2005

• Evidence On Stage and in the Community

The second work, "Incidents" (1998), takes its title from the 1861 autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," which chronicles her journey from slavery to freedom. [Ronald K Brown]'s program notes describe the dance as an exploration of how "the remnants of the slave narrative live in the body and actions of women. Its music begins and concludes with Duke Ellington's soaring gospel composition, "Come Sunday," sung first by Jinmiy McPhail, then by Jennifer Holiday. In between are "Gabriel and Rock Shock," a pulsing spul-house track by Roy Davis, Jr., and the Nigerian Afrobeat hit "Shakara" by FeIa Anikulapo Kuti. Performed by all eight dancers, including Brown, the dance seamlessly shifts from Ellington to hip-hop and back, finding exalting jubilation in e...

• Boston Banner, The
• November 13, 2009

• Slave's Account of Cramped, Hidden Life Is Riveting

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself Harriet A. Jacobs

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• June 13, 2006

• 10 Books Essential for Black History Month

Published in 1952, [Ralph Ellison]'s Invisible Man shared a title and mission of social commentary with H.G. Wells' satire of the previous century. Invisible Man has been for many reasons an enduring American presence. Ellison's nameless protagonist is invisible not through his own agency but precisely because people refuse to see him. This depiction of societal invisibility is haunting in light of the paradoxical hypervisibility and invisibility of the black segment of American society. The father of pan-Africanism, W.E.B. Du Bois was among many black thinkers and activists who defined the parameters of protest and resistance and laid down the underlying principles upon which blacks in the United States and around the world were to demand equal political and economic rights. The pr...

...Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. By Harriet Jacobs (Ha...

• The Broward Times
• October 19, 2009

• 'Mad' enough to kill: enslaved women, murder, and southern courts.

... that drove the young women to take another's life. By probing into the rationales for the defendants... members of the Edwards household, or if slavery made her restive and kindled dreams of a freedom. ... other reasons for purchasing the 14-year-old girl at an 1850 auction in Audrain County, Missouri. Ne... (Boston, 2002), 2-10; Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, e...

• The Journal of African American History
• Vol. 92 Nbr. 1, January 2007

• Leaving the Good Mother: Frances E. W. Harper, Lydia Maria Child, and the Literary Politics of Reconstruction

Assimilation through adoption is represented as a betrayal of one's race and a shirking of one's duty toward one's people.17 If the beliefs of both pro- and antislavery writers converged at the idea that whites were responsible for blacks' care, manifested either as paternalism in slavery or the liberal tradition in abolitionism, Harper's separatist solution rejects the model of care/dependence entirely and advocates blacks' independence.

... and authenticated Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and penned one of the ...

• Legacy
• Vol. 25 Nbr. 1, April 2008

• From the Personal to the Political; Toward a New Theory of Maternal Narrative.

... to a lesbian identity, motherhood and slavehood in Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slavve Girl, and a Kristevan reading of Anne Enright's memoir ...

• Reference and Research Book News
• Vol. 25 Nbr. 2, May 2010