incidents in the life of a slave girl by harriet jacobs

• 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

• Sexual abuse of women in United States prisons: a modern corollary of slavery.

... pointed out that men were luring women and girls into prostitution. (10) Women prison reformers com...(32) . In fact, Harriet Jacobs, one of the early female abolitionists and ... testimony which detailed numerous incidents of sexual abuse. (120) Yet another approach to the... the equality of all women in all spheres of life. . Id. . (3.) Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of...

• Fordham Urban Law Journal
• Vol. 33 Nbr. 2, January 2006

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

Some thirty years before Harriet Ann Jacobs opened the Jacobs Free School in Alexan...

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

• Voice in African American history.

... trends, art, music, the evolution of life .. and all the rest. Springing from this boundless...Most of the books on this list address slavery or the struggle for civil rights--but we provide a.... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] . Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl . By Harriet Jacobs (1...

• Bookmarks
• Nbr. 2009, January 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

• '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...The scholar Harriet C. Frazier speculates that she served as a form of... violence confirmed the slave-born Harriet Jacobs's assertion that even "the little child" would "be... (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

• 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

• Considering Slavery As Portrayed by Contemporary Artists

While mainstream organizations have been pushed to paint a more honest portrait of life for African Americans during that antebellum period and its aftermath, the number of Black-owned slave museums has increased nationwide.

... the attic crawlspace described by Harriet Jacobs in her 1861 narrative Incidents in the Lifee of a Slave Girl as her hiding place to elude sexual exploitation b...

• Crisis, The
• Vol. 113 Nbr. 6, November 2006

• 'From motives of delicacy': sexuality and morality in the narratives of Sojourner Truth and Harriet Jacobs.

... Sojourner Truth published a narrative of her life in bondage, which she dictated to Garrisonian abol... was silent on particular travails of slavery, "from motives of delicacy" and fear that "relatio... eve of the Civil War, Jacobs published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself wit...

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