Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an 1861 autobiographical slave narrative by Harriet Jacobs that exposes the sexual exploitation and brutal realities of slavery from a Black woman’s perspective.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
autobiographical slave narrative
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book → memoir → |
| addresses |
Northern white female readership
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| aimsTo |
mobilize abolitionist sentiment
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| author |
Harriet Jacobs
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| centralTheme |
freedom and self-determination
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intersection of race and gender oppression → maternal love and sacrifice → sexual vulnerability of enslaved women → |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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| editor |
Lydia Maria Child
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| featuresCharacter |
Aunt Martha
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Dr. Flint → Mr. Sands → |
| focusesOn |
family separation under slavery
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psychological trauma of enslavement → sexual harassment by slaveholders → strategies of resistance by enslaved women → |
| genre |
African-American literature
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autobiography → slave narrative → women's literature → |
| hasNotableEpisode |
seven years hiding in a garret
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| hasPseudonymousAuthorName |
Linda Brent
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| influenced |
later Black feminist thought
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scholarship on slavery and gender → |
| language |
English
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| literarySignificance |
major work of African-American women's literature
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one of the first slave narratives written by a Black woman → |
| mainSubject |
fugitive slaves
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life of an enslaved Black woman → motherhood under slavery → resistance to slavery → sexual exploitation of enslaved women → slavery in the United States → |
| movement |
abolitionism
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| narrativePerspective |
first-person
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| placeOfPublication |
Boston
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| publicationDate |
1861
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| publisher |
Thayer & Eldridge
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| recognizedAs |
classic of American literature
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| setting |
Edenton, North Carolina
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New York City → |
| structure |
episodic narrative
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| timePeriod |
antebellum period
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early 19th century → |
Referenced by (5)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Harriet Jacobs
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Harriet Jacobs → |
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Harriet Jacobs
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describedBySource |
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Jacobs
("Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (author Harriet Jacobs)")
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hasNotableBearer |
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Harriet Jacobs
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