Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

by Harriet Jacobs · Free audiobook · 43 chapters

Librivox recording of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet Jacobs. Read by Elizabeth Klett. Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to freedom in the north, and her ensuing struggles to free her children. The narrative was partly serialized in the New York Tribune, but was discontinued because Jacobs' depictions of the sexual abuse of female slaves were considered too shocking. It was published in book form in 1861. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett). For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org . Download M4B (214MB)

Chapters

• 1. 00 - Introduction6:20
• 2. 01 - Childhood8:52
• 3. 02 - The New Master and Mistress13:19
• 4. 03 - The Slaves' New Year's Day4:48
• 5. 04 - The Slave Who Dared to Feel Like a Man24:10
• 6. 05 - The Trials of Girlhood8:29
• 7. 06 - The Jealous Mistress14:30
• 8. 07 - The Lover15:06
• 9. 08 - What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North5:48
• 10. 09 - Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders17:52
• 11. 10 - A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life13:08
• 12. 11 - A New Tie to Life11:29
• 13. 12 - Fear of Insurrection11:44
• 14. 13 - The Church and Slavery18:30
• 15. 14 - Another Link to Life8:00
• 16. 15 - Continued Persecutions14:08
• 17. 16 - Scenes at the Plantation21:40
• 18. 17 - The Flight7:12
• 19. 18 - Months of Peril16:22
• 20. 19 - The Children Sold11:27
• 21. 20 - New Perils9:24
• 22. 21 - The Loophole of Retreat9:46
• 23. 22 - Christmas Festivities5:16
• 24. 23 - Still in Prison9:24
• 25. 24 - The Candidate for Congress6:24
• 26. 25 - Competition in Cunning11:22
• 27. 26 - Important Era in my Brother's Life9:42
• 28. 27 - New Destination for the Children15:38
• 29. 28 - Aunt Nancy11:42
• 30. 29 - Preparations for Escape19:12
• 31. 30 - Northward Bound7:12
• 32. 31 - Incidents in Philadelphia10:23
• 33. 32 - The Meeting of Mother and Daughter8:02
• 34. 33 - A Home Found6:28
• 35. 34 - The Old Enemy Again8:26
• 36. 35 - Prejudice Against Color5:41
• 37. 36 - The Hairsbreadth Escape11:01
• 38. 37 - A Visit to England6:19
• 39. 38 - Renewed Invitations to Go South4:46
• 40. 39 - The Confession4:31
• 41. 40 - The Fugitive Slave Law12:06
• 42. 41 - Free At Last16:00
• 43. 42 - Appendix5:10