Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,9780156443500

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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Edition: Revised
ISBN13: 9780156443500
ISBN10: 0156443503
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1973-03-21
Publisher(s): Lightning Source Inc
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Summary

An authentic autobiographical account of slave life in the South from the 1820s to the 1840s. To escape sexual exploitation by her master, Brent ran away and hid in an attic crawl space that became her home for seven years of unbelievable physical hardship. Edited by L. Maria Child; Introduction by Walter Teller.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
Walter Teller
Introduction xi
L. Maria Child
Preface xiii
Linda Brent
Childhood
3(4)
The New Master and Mistress
7(6)
The Slaves' New Year's Day
13(2)
The Slave Who Dared to Feel Like a Man
15(11)
The Trials of Girlhood
26(3)
The Jealous Mistress
29(7)
The Lover
36(6)
What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North
42(3)
Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders
45(8)
A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life
53(6)
The New Tie to Life
59(5)
Fear of Insurrection
64(5)
The Church and Slavery
69(9)
Another Link to Life
78(3)
Continued Persecutions
81(6)
Scenes at the Plantation
87(10)
The Flight
97(3)
Months of Peril
100(7)
The Children Sold
107(5)
New Perils
112(5)
The Loophole of Retreat
117(4)
Christmas Festivities
121(2)
Still in Prison
123(4)
The Candidate for Congress
127(3)
Competition in Cunning
130(5)
Important Era in My Brother's Life
135(4)
New Destination for the Children
139(7)
Aunt Nancy
146(5)
Preparations for Escape
151(9)
Northward Bound
160(4)
Incidents in Philadelphia
164(5)
The Meeting of Mother and Daughter
169(3)
A Home Found
172(3)
The Old Enemy Again
175(4)
Prejudice Against Color
179(3)
The Hairbreadth Escape
182(5)
A Visit to England
187(3)
Renewed Invitations to Go South
190(2)
The Confession
192(2)
The Fugitive Slave Law
194(6)
Free at Last
200(9)
Appendix 209

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