Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself

Name: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself
Author: Harriet Jacobs

Auteur: Harriet Jacobs

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Harriet Jacobs

Engels
Paperback
9781613822920
04 april 2012
230 pagina's

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Harriet Jacobs

Harriet Jacobs (1813–97) was a reformer, Civil War and Reconstruction relief worker, and antislavery activist. Born a slave to mulatto parents in North Carolina, she was only fifteen when her master, Dr. Flint, began his pursuit of her. This abuse and the resulting oppression from Flint’s wife forced Jacobs to take drastic measures to protect herself, so she encouraged a relationship with Mr. Sands, an unmarried white lawyer for whom she bore two children. When the situation with Flint became intolerable, she left her children and took refuge in a small garret of her grandmother’s house, where she lived for seven years. She finally escaped to the North, and her children eventually followed. She managed to support herself while evading numerous attempts by Flint to return her to slavery. At age forty, Jacobs was purchased and then emancipated by an abolitionist who was Jacobs’s employer and friend. During the Civil War, Jacobs began a career working among black refugees. In 1863, she and her daughter moved to Alexandria, where they supplied emergency relief, organized primary medical care, and established the Jacobs Free School—black led and black taught—for the refugees. After the war, they sailed to England and successfully raised money for a home for Savannah’s black orphans and aged. Then they moved to Washington, DC, where they continued to work among the destitute freed people, and her daughter worked in the newly established “colored schools” and, later, at Howard University. In 1896, Harriet Jacobs was present at the organizing meetings of the National Association of Colored Women.

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Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 04 april 2012
Aantal pagina's: 230
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Hoofduitgeverij: Simon & Brown

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Product hoogte: 12 mm
Product lengte: 229 mm
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Verpakking hoogte: 12 mm
Verpakking lengte: 229 mm
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