Harriet Jacobs

Slavery’s Destructive Effect on Women, Both Free and Slave: An Essay on Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

In his annual message to Congress on December 1, 1862, Abraham Lincoln commented, "In giving freedom to the slave, we…

2 years ago

Alice Walker Continues African-American Women’s Writing Tradition

Since the beginning of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, women have worked to communicate their experiences in dealing with a…

2 years ago

Escape and Rescue: Two Stories of Slave Women in America

During the mid-1800's many freed or escaped slaves began seeking an outlet and putting their stories into print so that…

2 years ago

Feminist Criticism to the The Awakening

According to the class handout, An Informal Literary Theory Checklist, Feminist Criticism concentrates on the following themes: women's political and…

4 years ago

The Lives of Frederick Douglass & Harriet Jacobs

Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the life of a slave girl and Frederick Douglass' Narrative in the Life of Frederick Douglass…

4 years ago

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