Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, credited to Harriet Jacobs, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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Librivox recording of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet Jacobs. Read by Elizabeth Klett. Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to freedom in the north, and her ensuing struggles to free her children. The narrative was partly serialized in the New York Tribune, but was discontinued because Jacobs' depictions of the sexual abuse of female slaves were considered too shocking. It was published in book form in 1861. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett). For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
• Author credits: Harriet Jacobs
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 43
• Listed recording duration: 7:46:49

Catalogue topics

• slavery
• memoir
• autobiography

Opening tracks: first 24 of 43

1. 00 - Introduction — 6:20
2. 01 - Childhood — 8:52
3. 02 - The New Master and Mistress — 13:19
4. 03 - The Slaves' New Year's Day — 4:49
5. 04 - The Slave Who Dared to Feel Like a Man — 24:11
6. 05 - The Trials of Girlhood — 8:29
7. 06 - The Jealous Mistress — 14:31
8. 07 - The Lover — 15:06
9. 08 - What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North — 5:48
10. 09 - Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders — 17:52
11. 10 - A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life — 13:08
12. 11 - A New Tie to Life — 11:30
13. 12 - Fear of Insurrection — 11:44
14. 13 - The Church and Slavery — 18:30
15. 14 - Another Link to Life — 8:01
16. 15 - Continued Persecutions — 14:08
17. 16 - Scenes at the Plantation — 21:40
18. 17 - The Flight — 7:12
19. 18 - Months of Peril — 16:22
20. 19 - The Children Sold — 11:27
21. 20 - New Perils — 9:24
22. 21 - The Loophole of Retreat — 9:46
23. 22 - Christmas Festivities — 5:16
24. 23 - Still in Prison — 9:24

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