Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Resources
Websites
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Get your Harriet Jacobs fix with the entire text of Incidents, in your choice of plain text or page images.
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John Jacobs’s narrative, The Leisure Hour.
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North Carolina was plenty involved in the slave trade.
Historical Documents
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An early positive review of Incidents, in the black publication The Liberator: it "shine[s] by the lustre of [its] own truthfulness."
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This is a remarkably detailed advertisement submitted by James Norcom (Dr. Flint in the novel) for the capture of Harriet Jacobs after she went into hiding.
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Here's an entire website with a searchable database of U.S. runaway slave ads.
Video
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Lydia R. Diamond turned Jacobs's story into a play. Here, actors discuss.
Images
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Turns out she's a really nice-looking lady. No wonder she had so many friends.
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On second thought, please stay dead. James Norcom, Harriet Jacobs’s slaveowner, died in 1847. He was 69 years old, and he looks as creepy as she said.
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Child was a famous abolitionist writer. She gave her support to Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl—and most people originally thought she wrote it.
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How ironic that Harriet Jacobs is now Edenton, NC's most famous resident.