Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs

Table Of Contents

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• Preface By The Author
• Introduction By The Editor
• Childhood
• The New Master And Mistress
• The Slaves' New Year's Day
• The Slave Who Dared To Feel Like A Man
• The Trials Of Girlhood
• The Jealous Mistress
• The Lover
• What Slaves Are Taught To Think Of The North
• Sketches Of Neighboring Slaveholders
• A Perilous Passage In The Slave Girl's Life
• The New Tie To Life
• Fear Of Insurrection
• The Church And Slavery
• Another Link To Life
• Continued Persecutions
• Scenes At The Plantation
• The Flight
• Months Of Peril
• The Children Sold
• New Perils
• The Loophole Of Retreat
• Christmas Festivities
• Still In Prison
• The Candidate For Congress
• Competition In Cunning
• Important Era In My Brother's Life
• New Destination For The Children
• Aunt Nancy
• Preparations For Escape
• Northward Bound
• Incidents In Philadelphia
• The Meeting Of Mother And Daughter
• A Home Found
• The Old Enemy Again
• Prejudice Against Color
• The Hairbreadth Escape
• A Visit To England
• Renewed Invitations To Go South
• The Confession
• The Fugitive Slave Law
• Free At Last
• Appendix