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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Tormented by her master, a young mother plots a daring escape, in this courageous and captivating slave narrative When her mother dies, six-year-old slave girl Linda Brent is sent to the big house, where she grows up serving a gentle mistress who teaches her to read and write. But the mistress'...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Open Road Media,
2016.
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| Colección: | Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Epigraph; Contents; Preface by the Author; Introduction by the Editor; I. Childhood; II. The New Master and Mistress; III. The Slaves' New Year's Day; IV. The Slave Who Dared to Feel Like a Man; V. The Trials Of Girlhood; VI. The Jealous Mistress; VII. The Lover; VIII. What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North; IX. Sketches Of Neighboring Slaveholders; X.A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life; XI. The New Tie to Life; XII. Fear of Insurrection; XIII. The Church and Slavery; XIV. Another Link To Life; XV. Continued Persecutions; XVI. Scenes at the Plantation.
- XVII. The FlightXVIII. Months Of Peril; XIX. The Children Sold; XX. New Perils; XXI. The Loophole of Retreat; XXII. Christmas Festivities; XXIII. Still in Prison; XXIV. The Candidate for Congress; XXV. Competition in Cunning; XXVI. Important Era in My Brother's Life; XXVII. New Destination for the Children; XXVIII. Aunt Nancy; XXIX. Preparations for Escape; XXX. Northward Bound; XXXI. Incidents in Philadelphia; XXXII. The Meeting of Mother and Daughter; XXXIII. A Home Found; XXXIV. The Old Enemy Again; XXXV. Prejudice Against Color; XXXVI. The Hair-breadth Escape; XXXVII. A Visit to England.
- XXXVIII. Renewed Invitations to Go SouthXXXIX. The Confession; XL. The Fugitive Slave Law; XLI. Free at Last; Appendix; Copyright.