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Title: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs ISBN: 0-486-41931-2 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 09 November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.76 (34 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A very poweful tale of the great injustice put on slaves.
Comment: I have read Incidents in the Life of a Slave by Harriet Jacobs, twice! I enjoyed reading her book. Her book is full of rich vocabulary. Her writing skills and the description of events she used was impressive, i.e. the separation of mother and child being sold to slaveholders, I felt the pain. In her writings, she constantly humbled herself because of her circumstances of being a slave and how she felt incompetent to write her life story. I must say that Jacobs did a magnificent job, considering her life of chattel slavery. Besides being courageous, strong and enduring, she was a very wise person. I think Jacob's does not give herself credit for being wise. She was very wise because she had to plan various strategies to outwit her devil master's attempts to capture her. She was wise in not trusting Harriet Beecher Stowe. What was Stowe's purpose of forwarding Jacob's writings to Mrs. Willis, which included her sexual history? Jacobs was no fool. Finally, the most indelible impression on my mind was when she hid in her grandmother's house, above the storage room, for seven years! I was right there with her. Great job Harriet Jacobs!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Heartbreaking and eye-opening
Comment: When my history professor told us that we'd be reading this book and writing a paper over it I was less than excited. I thought it was going to be just another boring History text. To my surpise and delight I was hooked after only a few pages.
This true story of Harriet Jacobs, a 19th century slave, is absolutely mind-blowing. Ms. Jacobs spent 7 years of her life living in what was literally a wooden box in the rafters of her grandmother's shed. She was waiting for the perfect moment to escape to the North and bring her children out of slavery. From her perch in the shed she could look out onto the street and watch her children play and hear them talk about how much they missed their mother and wished to see her again (they had no idea she was in hiding). Jacobs even went so far as to send letters to her vicious master to make him believe that she was really in the Northern states.
Sure everyone learns about slavery in school, but we only get the narrow and highly shortened version of what it was to live in slavery. This book is an emotional account of slavery in all its brutality and what it was like to live in fear every moment of every day. Jacobs is a perfect portrait of an unbreakable spirit.
Rating: 4
Summary: a bit unbelievable
Comment: But..... a fairly easy read with a simplistic viewpoint.
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Title: The Souls of Black Folk (Dover Thrift Editions) by W.E.B. Du Bois ISBN: 0486280411 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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Title: The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Dover Thrift Editions) by Olive Gilbert, Sojourner Truth ISBN: 048629899X Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Up from Slavery (Dover Thrift Editions) by Booker T. Washington ISBN: 0486287386 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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Title: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Written by Himself by Frederick Douglass, John W. Blassingame, John R. McKivigan, Peter P. Hinks, Gerald Fulkerson ISBN: 0300087012 Publisher: Yale Nota Bene Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Dover Thrift Editions) by James Weldon Johnson ISBN: 048628512X Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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