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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Linda Brent
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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The autobiography of a woman who grew up in, and escaped from, slavery.

Language
English
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Titlepage
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Epigraph
Preface by the Author
Introduction by the Editor
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
I: Childhood
II: The New Master and Mistress
III: The Slaves’ New Year’s Day
IV: The Slave Who Dared to Feel Like a Man
V: The Trials of Girlhood
VI: The Jealous Mistress
VII: The Lover
VIII: What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North
IX: Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders
X: A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl’s Life
XI: The New Tie to Life
XII: Fear of Insurrection
XIII: The Church and Slavery
XIV: Another Link to Life
XV: Continued Persecutions
XVI: Scenes at the Plantation
XVII: The Flight
XVIII: Months of Peril
XIX: The Children Sold
XX: New Perils
XXI: The Loophole of Retreat
XXII: Christmas Festivities
XXIII: Still in Prison
XXIV: The Candidate for Congress
XXV: Competition in Cunning
XXVI: Important Era in My Brother’s Life
XXVII: New Destination for the Children
XXVIII: Aunt Nancy
XXIX: Preparations for Escape
XXX: Northward Bound
XXXI: Incidents in Philadelphia
XXXII: The Meeting of Mother and Daughter
XXXIII: A Home Found
XXXIV: The Old Enemy Again
XXXV: Prejudice Against Color
XXXVI: The Hairbreadth Escape
XXXVII: A Visit to England
XXXVIII: Renewed Invitations to Go South
XXXIX: The Confession
XL: The Fugitive Slave Law
XLI: Free at Last
Appendix
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