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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

by Harriet Jacobs

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  1. 1Written by Herself
  2. 2Preface by the Author
  3. 3Introduction by the Editor
  4. 4I — Childhood
  5. 5II — The New Master and Mistress
  6. 6III — The Slaves’ New Year’s Day
  7. 7IV — The Slave Who Dared to Feel Like a Man
  8. 8V — The Trials of Girlhood
  9. 9VI — The Jealous Mistress
  10. 10VII — The Lover
  11. 11VIII — What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North
  12. 12IX — Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders
  13. 13X — A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl’s Life
  14. 14XI — The New Tie to Life
  15. 15XII — Fear of Insurrection
  16. 16XIII — The Church and Slavery
  17. 17XIV — Another Link to Life
  18. 18XV — Continued Persecutions
  19. 19XVI — Scenes at the Plantation
  20. 20XVII — The Flight
  21. 21XVIII — Months of Peril
  22. 22XIX — The Children Sold
  23. 23XX — New Perils
  24. 24XXI — The Loophole of Retreat
  25. 25XXII — Christmas Festivities
  26. 26XXIII — Still in Prison
  27. 27XXIV — The Candidate for Congress
  28. 28XXV — Competition in Cunning
  29. 29XXVI — Important Era in My Brother’s Life
  30. 30XXVII — New Destination for the Children
  31. 31XXVIII — Aunt Nancy
  32. 32XXIX — Preparations for Escape
  33. 33XXX — Northward Bound
  34. 34XXXI — Incidents in Philadelphia
  35. 35XXXII — The Meeting of Mother and Daughter
  36. 36XXXIII — A Home Found
  37. 37XXXIV — The Old Enemy Again
  38. 38XXXV — Prejudice Against Color
  39. 39XXXVI — The Hairbreadth Escape
  40. 40XXXVII — A Visit to England
  41. 41XXXVIII — Renewed Invitations to Go South
  42. 42XXXIX — The Confession
  43. 43XL — The Fugitive Slave Law
  44. 44XLI — Free at Last
  45. 45Appendix

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