Twenty Years Crisis 1919 1939 or Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939

Author: Edward Hallett Carr

'...this book is a monument to the human power of sane and detached analysis. In its examination of the collapse of the international system, it is utterly devoid of national bias, or that bitter denunciation of governments and men which marks so much recent literature dealing with the crisis...In the development of his thesis, Professor Carr has produced one of the most significant contributions to the systematic study of the theory of international politics that this reviewer has seen in years.' -W.P. Maddox, The American Political Science Review

See also: Fitness Walking or How to Make a Pregnant Woman Happy

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Author: Nellie Y McKay

Not only one of the last of over one hundred slave narratives published separately before the Civil War, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) is also one of the few existing narratives written by a woman. It offers a unique perspective on the complex plight of the black woman as slave and as writer. In a story that merges the conventions of the slave narrative with the techniques of the sentimental novel, Harriet Jacobs describes her efforts to fight off the advances of her master, her eventual liaison with another white man (the father of two of her children), and her ultimately successful struggle for freedom. Jacobs' account of her experiences, and her search for her own voice, prefigure the literary and ideological concerns of generations of African-American women writers to come.

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Published in 1861, this was one of the first personal narratives by a slave and one of the few written by a woman. Jacobs (1813-97) was a slave in North Carolina and suffered terribly, along with her family, at the hands of a ruthless owner. She made several failed attempts to escape before successfully making her way North, though it took years of hiding and slow progress. Eventually, she was reunited with her children. For all biography and history collections. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Childhood	8
	The New Master and Mistress	11
	The Slaves' New Year's Day	16
	The Slave who dared to feel like a Man	17
	The Trials of Girlhood	26
	The Jealous Mistress	28
	The Lover	33
	What Slaves are taught to think of the North	39
	Sketches of neighboring Slaveholders	41
	A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life	47
	The new Tie to Life	51
	Fear of Insurrection	55
	The Church and Slavery	59
	Another Link to Life	65
	Continued Persecutions	68
	Scenes at the Plantation	73
	The Flight	80
	Months of Peril	83
	The Children Sold	88
	New Perils	92
	The Loophole of Retreat	95
	Christmas Festivities	98
	Still in Prison	100
	The Candidate for Congress	103
	Competition in Cunning	105
	Important Era in my Brother's Life	109
	New Destination for the Children	113
	Aunt Nancy	118
	Preparations for Escape	122
	Northward Bound	129
	Incidents in Philadelphia	132
	The Meeting of Mother and Daughter	135
	A Home Found	138
	The Old Enemy again	140
	Prejudice Against Color	143
	The Hairbreadth Escape	145
	A Visit to England	149
	Renewed Invitations to go South	151
	The Confession	153
	The Fugitive Slave Law	154
	Free at Last	159
	Appendix	165