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  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Note on the Text
  5. Preface by the Author
  6. Introduction by Lydia Maria Child
  7. I.Childhood
  8. II.The New Master and Mistress.
  9. III.The Slaves’ New Years Day.
  10. IV.The Slave Who Dared to Feel like a Man.
  11. V.The Trials of Girlhood.
  12. VI.The Jealous Mistress.
  13. VII.The Lover.
  14. VIII.What Slaves are Taught to Think of the North.
  15. IX.Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders.
  16. X.A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl’s Life.
  17. XI.The New Tie to Life.
  18. XII.Fear of Insurrection.
  19. XIII.The Church and Slavery.
  20. XIV.Another Link to Life.
  21. XV.Continued Persecutions.
  22. XVI.Scenes at the Plantation.
  23. XVII.The Flight.
  24. XVIII.Months of Peril.
  25. XIX.The Children Sold.
  26. XX.New Perils.
  27. XXI.The Loophole of Retreat.
  28. XXII.Christmas Festivities.
  29. XXIII.Still in Prison.
  30. XXIV: The Candidate for Congress.
  31. XXV: Comprtition is Cunning.
  32. XXVI: Important Era in my Brother's Life.
  33. XXVII: New Destination for the Children.
  34. XXVIII: Aunt Nancy.
  35. XXIX: Preparations for Escape.
  36. XXX: Northward Bound.
  37. XXXI: Incidents in Philadelphia.
  38. XXXII: The Meeting of Mother and Daughter.
  39. XXXIII: A Home Found.
  40. XXXIV. The Old Enemey Again.
  41. XXXV: Prejudice Against Color.
  42. XXXVI: The Heairbreadth Escape.
  43. XXXVII: A Visit to England.
  44. XXXVIII: Renewed Invitations to go South.
  45. XXXIX: The Confession.
  46. XL: The Fugitive Slave Law.
  47. XLI: Free at Last.
  48. Appendix.

First Published in Boston: For the Author [Harriet Ann Jacobs], 1861.

Last updated 7 Nov. 2018

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License:
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Cover Photograph: "Portrait of Harriet Jacobs". Documenting the American South. University Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 7 January 2004. https://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/jacobs/jacobs_100.html.

Edited and published by Paul L. Hebert,
City University of New York (CUNY)

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