Read an excerpt from Harriet Jacobs' INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p33B3-sCQi0GzT9zXxFqDopZ_mlGGY7RIQ4rvcEp2ec/pub
In groups answer the following questions:
After listening to all the groups...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p33B3-sCQi0GzT9zXxFqDopZ_mlGGY7RIQ4rvcEp2ec/pub
In groups answer the following questions:
- What is the main idea of your passage. Describe the incident to the class.
- What did you find most interesting about your passage?
- Find several sentences/phrases/quotes that you’d like to share.
- What does Harriet’s narrative reveal about the life of some enslaved girls/women?
After listening to all the groups...
- How is this view of slavery different than other “traditional’ narratives?
- create a list of what Harriet experienced vs. what you think would be a “traditional” experience.
Is Harriet Jacobs still relevant today?
There are many slave narratives available today, but only one that was self-written by a woman, and the author was born in a small coastal town in North Carolina. Mitchell Lewis explores the relevance of fugitive slave Harriet Jacobs life today with members of an honors seminar at Bennett College for Women who studied her life through the autobiography -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.