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4 days ago · Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl disappeared from notice soon after its publication, without a large sale, while Douglass’s first book went through nine editions in its first two years and eventually became the standard against which all other slave narratives—even his own later ones—are measured.
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1 day ago · Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, What happens when Jacobs tells her master, Dr. Flint, that her free black lover wants to marry her?, Why does Jacobs still fear being captured after she learns of Dr. Flint's death? and more.
5 days ago · Harriet Jacobs, the earliest known African American female slave to author her own narrative, also challenged conventional ideas about slavery and freedom in her strikingly original Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861).
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5 days ago · Like Harriet Jacobs, Chestnut takes particular offense at the sexual dynamic produced by slavery, in which slave women must endure a system of forced prostitution, and the wives of slaveowners live in a state of denial about the patriarchy of the "mulatto children [who] ... she seems to think, drop from the clouds."
2 days ago · Definition and Background. In the past couple of decades, the word pigmentocracy has come into common usage to refer to the distinctions that people of African descent in America make in their various skin tones, which range from the darkest shades of black to paleness that approximates whiteness.
6 days ago · Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs (1861) "A Woman's Philosophy of Woman; or Woman Affranchised. An Answer to Michelet, Proudhon, Girardin, Legouve, Comte, and Other Modern Innovators", Jenny d'Héricourt (1864)
