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Harriet A. Jacobs (1813–1897)

Autor de Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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Born into slavery in North Carolina, Jacobs's early life was one of abuse and hardship. At the age of 21, she was sent to work on a plantation as penalty for having rejected the sexual advances of her white owner, whereupon she determined to free herself and her children at whatever cost. In 1842 mostrar más Jacobs escaped to the North and was placed in the home of the popular New York writer, N. P. Willis. Several years later she moved to Rochester, New York, where she became active in a group of antislavery feminists. It was at their urging that she first came to think of writing her autobiography, since slave narratives were found to be an effective means of turning northern sentiment against the cruelties of slavery. Jacobs worked on her book during the next several years, finally finishing it in 1858, but no publisher was willing to publish it. Only after Lydia Maria Child, a leading white abolitionist, agreed to write a preface to Jacobs's autobiography was the book able to find its way into print in 1861. Coming as it did, however, so close to the beginning of the Civil War, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (published under the pseudonym "Linda Brent") did not win the enormous popularity that other slave narratives had previously enjoyed, such as Frederick Douglass's Narrative (1845). Nor was its popularity increased by its frank depiction of the sexual exploitation of female slaves by their masters. However, white women reader were especially moved by the account of a woman who had fought so heroically to free herself and her children from slavery, even at the cost of her "virtue," and were able to identify with her through the perspective of their own situations as wives and mothers. During and after the Civil War, Jacobs traveled and spoke on behalf of the rights of African Americans, her effectiveness enhanced by the recognition that she had earned as an author. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Nombre legal
Jacobs, Harriet Ann
Otros nombres
Brent, Linda (pseudonym)
Fecha de nacimiento
1813-02-11
Fecha de fallecimiento
1897-03-17
Lugar de sepultura
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Género
female
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
Edenton, North Carolina, USA
Lugar de fallecimiento
Washington DC, USA
Causa de fallecimiento
illness
Lugares de residencia
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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Un documento realista y conmovedor sobre la lucha de una mujer para salir de la esclavitud. Sorprendentemente bien escrito y con una cadencia que atrapa la atención. La vida de Linda (que es la autora) una esclava de los estados del sur de EEUU en el siglo XIX y la lucha que mantiene para lograr su libertad y la de sus hijos, que finalmente logra. La autora disfraza los nombres para evitar que fueran reconocidos en los estados del Sur.
 
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