Sách nói: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
- Download 00 – Introduction audio
- Download 01 – Childhood audio
- Download 02 – The New Master and Mistress audio
- Download 03 – The Slaves’ New Year’s Day audio
- Download 04 – The Slave Who Dared to Feel Like a Man audio
- Download 05 – The Trials of Girlhood audio
- Download 06 – The Jealous Mistress audio
- Download 07 – The Lover audio
- Download 08 – What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North audio
- Download 09 – Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders audio
- Download 10 – A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl’s Life audio
- Download 11 – A New Tie to Life audio
- Download 12 – Fear of Insurrection audio
- Download 13 – The Church and Slavery audio
- Download 14 – Another Link to Life audio
- Download 15 – Continued Persecutions audio
- Download 16 – Scenes at the Plantation audio
- Download 17 – The Flight audio
- Download 18 – Months of Peril audio
- Download 19 – The Children Sold audio
- Download 20 – New Perils audio
- Download 21 – The Loophole of Retreat audio
- Download 22 – Christmas Festivities audio
- Download 23 – Still in Prison audio
- Download 24 – The Candidate for Congress audio
- Download 25 – Competition in Cunning audio
- Download 26 – Important Era in my Brother’s Life audio
- Download 27 – New Destination for the Children audio
- Download 28 – Aunt Nancy audio
- Download 29 – Preparations for Escape audio
- Download 30 – Northward Bound audio
- Download 31 – Incidents in Philadelphia audio
- Download 32 – The Meeting of Mother and Daughter audio
- Download 33 – A Home Found audio
- Download 34 – The Old Enemy Again audio
- Download 35 – Prejudice Against Color audio
- Download 36 – The Hairsbreadth Escape audio
- Download 37 – A Visit to England audio
- Download 38 – Renewed Invitations to Go South audio
- Download 39 – The Confession audio
- Download 40 – The Fugitive Slave Law audio
- Download 41 – Free At Last audio
- Download 42 – Appendix audio
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Born in slavery, but being fortunate enough to be owned by a benevolent mistress, her life takes a tragic turn when her parents and her benefactor die. The new heir to the property (and slaves) is a cruel and lewd man who begins to make inappropriate advances to the lovely young slave-girl. In a bid to escape, she becomes entangled in a relationship with a neighboring landowner who promises a better life, and she even has two children. However, things become worse for her when her cruel owner decides to punish her by sending her and her children to a distant cotton plantation to be “broken in.” She plans a devious method of escape and ends up spending seven terrible years locked up in a tiny cramped garret. Relentlessly pursued by her wicked owner, she lives in fear and desperation.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself is one of the many slave narratives that emerged out of the terrible and inhuman atrocities committed in the nineteenth century by white Americans. Modern-day readers would find it difficult to believe that such practices existed in the “Land of the Free.” Assisted by abominable laws like the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 endorsed by Congress, slave-owners were allowed to pursue their “property” across the length and breadth of the country.
Though there have been doubts about the authenticity of Incidents in the Life... by scholars who feel the style and content do not seem to synchronize with the attributes that a woman-slave of the period could have, there is no denying the fact that this is a powerful and thought-provoking story. There are many similarities to the more famous Uncle Tom's Cabin, the book that is supposed to have launched the American Civil War.
A very stirring and poignant read for all those who value their freedom today.
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