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Nearly 250 years ago a 10-year-old African girl was kidnapped and transported to South Carolina, where she was renamed Priscilla and sold into slavery.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, autobiographical narrative published in 1861 by Harriet Jacobs, an abolitionist who described her experiences while enslaved in North Carolina. It is one of the most important and influential slave narratives, and it is a landmark in African American literature.
Female slavery in the United States - Wikipedia. Living in a wide range of circumstances and possessing the intersecting identity of both black and female, enslaved women of African descent had nuanced experiences of slavery.
Fast Facts: Harriet Jacobs. Known For: Freed herself from enslavement and wrote "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (1861), the first female slave narrative in the U.S. Born: February 11, 1813, in Edenton, North Carolina. Died: March 7, 1897, in Washington, D.C.
Harriet Jacobs [a] (1813 or 1815 [b] – March 7, 1897) was an African-American abolitionist and writer whose autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, is now considered an "American classic". [5] Born into slavery in Edenton, North Carolina, she was sexually harassed by her enslaver.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself is an autobiography by Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive slave, published in 1861 by L. Maria Child, who edited the book for its author. Jacobs used the pseudonym Linda Brent.
Slave girl Patsey (Lupita Nyong'o) plays the most prominent role of all the enslaved women in the film. We are alerted to her youth from her first appearance making corn dolls in the field.
