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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself

Name: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Author: Harriet Jacobs

Auteur: Harriet Jacobs

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Harriet Jacobs

Engels
Paperback
9781554815029
30 juni 2023
348 pagina's

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Harriet Jacobs

Harriet Jacobs (1813–97) was a reformer, Civil War and Reconstruction relief worker, and antislavery activist. Born a slave to mulatto parents in North Carolina, she was only fifteen when her master, Dr. Flint, began his pursuit of her. This abuse and the resulting oppression from Flint’s wife forced Jacobs to take drastic measures to protect herself, so she encouraged a relationship with Mr. Sands, an unmarried white lawyer for whom she bore two children. When the situation with Flint became intolerable, she left her children and took refuge in a small garret of her grandmother’s house, where she lived for seven years. She finally escaped to the North, and her children eventually followed. She managed to support herself while evading numerous attempts by Flint to return her to slavery. At age forty, Jacobs was purchased and then emancipated by an abolitionist who was Jacobs’s employer and friend. During the Civil War, Jacobs began a career working among black refugees. In 1863, she and her daughter moved to Alexandria, where they supplied emergency relief, organized primary medical care, and established the Jacobs Free School—black led and black taught—for the refugees. After the war, they sailed to England and successfully raised money for a home for Savannah’s black orphans and aged. Then they moved to Washington, DC, where they continued to work among the destitute freed people, and her daughter worked in the newly established “colored schools” and, later, at Howard University. In 1896, Harriet Jacobs was present at the organizing meetings of the National Association of Colored Women.

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In 1861, Harriet Jacobs became the first formerly enslaved African American woman to publish a book-length account of her life. Engaging with the latest research on Jacobs’s life and work, this edition helps readers to understand the enormity of Jacobs’s achievement in writing, publishing, and distributing her life story.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 30 juni 2023
Aantal pagina's: 348

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Hoofdauteur: Harriet Jacobs
Hoofdredacteur: Koritha Mitchell
Hoofduitgeverij: Broadview Press Ltd

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Product breedte: 140 mm
Product lengte: 216 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 140 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 216 mm
Verpakking lengte: 216 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 174 g

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EAN: 9781554815029

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Categorieën: Biografieën & Waargebeurd

Geschiedenis

Historisch

Periodes

Moderne tijd (1800-1945)

Regio's & Landen

Noord-, Midden-, & Zuid-Amerika

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Onderwerp: Slavernij
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?: Boek
Taal: Engels
Periode: 19e eeuw

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