Thankful to have discovered Harriet’s book when I took a Black History Class in 1974. I was so amazed & captivated. by the struggle of this incredible woman that I stayed up all night not putting it down until I finished. The next day at work, much to my embarrassment, I fell asleep while giving the residents a smoking break. I woke up to find me Boss that shaking me. Since then, I have recommended it at least 50 if not more times .
The audiobook is FREE here on RUclips. Please listen to it because this is a watered down version AND....the only pictures that are accurate are the 1rst photo of Harriet as an elderly woman ( THE ONLY KNOWN PHOTO ), the painting of Dr. James Norcom, and the Civil War photo of the Samuel Sawyer. A quick GOOGLE and she could have put what are believed to be the photos of her children Louisa Matilda Jacobs- who looks a bit like her father IMO and her handsome son Joseph Jacobs- who actually looks a little like Dr Norcom IMO. I think I may actually listen to this again, been awhile.
I have listened to her audio book a few times now. This brought tears to my eyes. If you have not read Incidents of the life of a slave girl I highly recommend it.
Your video popped up next right after the 8 part audio version of Harriett's book. I was astonished to hear this took place in Eden, NC, because I used to live near there, and my daughter actually lives there now. However, my curiosity about that led me to read some things that indicate it was actually Edenton, NC, an actual city as well, but very near the coast.
AP2TMH POWER bahashem Yashaya wa Ruwach ~ My Family lived this book, & the saga continues to this day, yet Hebrews 4:13 says nothing is hidden from his sight, all will answer to Him.
I was thinking that map showing her town couldn’t be right since she talks about she and others getting on ships that go up the coast. It’s like whoever wrote the script for this didn’t read her book.
I listened to this book yesterday. I sometimes had to put it on pause as it was so upsetting that suchlike was completely common in the slavery of our southern states! Excellent book! Eye opening... not what we were taught in our highschool history classes!
that's so powerful ..but now, the question is who pays for the sins done to my ancestors today...because slavery is not dead. it's just changed hands.... and it's now showing up in the way Americans (of all type) treat each other today ...who will pay for the sins of my ancestors ....but why of course it shall be their Children,and their children's,children until the debt is paid in full.
Your comment is also powerful statement. A dept was paid at the cross of Yeshua. I realize a fulfillment of Deuteronomy 28 was fulfilled after 70 AD war, Sin continued. Sin will continue until return of Messiah. Until we learn to live together as God intended, we will remain as slave rather if your red, yellow, black or white. We've all been slaves at one time or another in a brutal way. Many still are. Could you imagine if we dedicated at least one day a year, like a holiday, to just have everyone step out into the street and join hands at a specific time and pray, even if your a non believer, and greet one another on what kind of change it could make? Like one long chain thru the cities and thru the country. Let it spread like a Christmas holiday throughout the world. Have you ever sat around a meeting table were nobody is really saying anything or very little. When the spoke's person stands up an goes around the table to introduce themselves and say a little something about themselves, people open up during a meeting, during break time and even after meetings. Our world doesn't seem much different. We see each other as strangers, fear or something. It wasn't until I worked with a black person I started to get to know who black people are. Went to another job and the same thing happened. When I thought about it, we are no different. When I was confronted by a black person in a racist way, I told him I'm not that way. He soften up. I was no different. I never gave anybody a rough time but I did make racist remarks as a joke away from the color who I was referring to. It took good black people to soften me up. I now have friends who are black. Black people really are beautiful people in every way. I was under the impression that blacks couldn't be trusted and they all hated white people. I was so wrong. I think this is the first time I ever shared this with anyone. I realized that it isn't the color, but rather, it is the racist that I dislike. If we could just all come together, red, yellow black and white, starting a once a year holiday, the harshest of curse will be lifted. with all the good people in this world, no reason evil should prevail. God so loved the WORLD so why shouldn't we. God gave his only begotten Son. I gave up fear of other colors. WE all need to give up our sin. I find it ironic that the Atlantic slave trade movement stopped world wide after American civil war. American's didn't even start the movement. God fulfilled Deuteronomy 28 and HE will fulfill peace on earth soon to come. God's hand at work.
1. YASHAYA prophesied about slavery of BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS & that only happen 2 the tribes that were there at that time in Jerusalem after those that DIDN'T adhere to YASHAYA see luke ie. When u see Jerusalem compase with armies... Those that fled into the wilderness(Africa) middle passage b4 deu.28:68 was 4filled. They are paying & so are we until the times of the Gentiles b 4filled. Then My 👑 King will take vengeance, it is mine saith the LORD. The LORD has Holidays THAT everyone who links to those prophecies given to the children of Jacob by Moses should FOLLOW see Romans 3rd & 6th chapter. Graftations CANNOT boast against the natural branches. Laws & status was shown 2 Jacob TMHGOD hasn't dealt so with any OTHER NATION; So READ CHILDREN OF JACOB. & know YOUR place in this WORLD. I being the same as Y holi is HOLY DAYS. STOP FOLLOWING TRADITIONS OF MEN & FOLLOW THOSE OF TMHGOD & CHRIST ~ HOLY SPIRIT; 3.CHRIST KEPT THE HOLY DAYS OF THE LAW. Romans chapter. 3. & 6 Revelations speaks of amelek; Quam YASHARALA wake up Jacob; Judeans first then the Gentiles~ Shalowam~ #Are the laws DONE, TMHGOD FORBID~
The majority of my people don't have the hunger for education and self sufficiency that many freed slaves had. Their mentality has become such, that they seek out things that put and keep them in bondage economically and educationally. They spurn the vast opportunities available to them and instead only have complaints. Unwilling to do anything to improve their lives, they really upon the state and others to take care of them and their children. Sadly in many cases, these self imposed chains are eagerly sought by the children, when they become of age. They rarely own businesses or property. It is a sad case of willfull ignorance. They don't know and they don't want to know. They are still slaves.
How could an assumed progressive country have inflicted such barbaric torture on a people for generations, and come out unscathed, with reputations intact, to become a leading nation to be looked up to with respect and admiration? There must be many more Harriet Jacobs with stories to tell, and the courage to expose the culprits, who should hang their heads in shame.
Inhear the book a little while ago..i just donot understand.i know they had because of the fear.but i would have been a murder to them because the flesh you can kill my soul belongs to my creator...no one has a right to own another person..this hearts me..i am a black woman i would have died fighting them..RIP.Beautiful mother of many.it sad but Thank you for my History..Thank each of you..peace Love and Blessings.
No offense but A lot of Your Information isn't Like The Documentary that was read on RUclips by A Gentleman I just finished listening to the Full Story of this Lady took Me half a night and Finished next day I thought her Name was Linda Brent The Dr. That Had her enslaved was Doctor Flint . Her Brother name was William,her Daughter name was Ellie This do not Sound Right or True ,Not Listen at this And The Piano Music ?
The names used in the book are fictitious she chose not to use their real names. A lot of info on you tube are half truths you have to research different sources to get the complete story.
@ Queen Corder She says at the beginning of the book that she changed the names and places but it was a true story. Remember even she called herself, “Linda”.
Operation Underground Railroad is what brought me to Harriet. Her book is the inspiration for the current abolitionist group battling child sex bondage as we speak. But with rage in my soul, I am disheartened to know that America is the leading marketplace for this 150 BILLION DOLLAR slave trade. A child is taken from places in the world where it's easy to exploit orphans or impoverished minors and a huge profit is made in this child traffic. The founder went undercover to purchase children, then exposed the evil demons. (10K per child average price... So the buyers are not poor, they are rich sons of bitches)... I cry my eyes out. I beg forgiveness, even in my old age, or especially in my old age, because it's the people of my color skin doing this abominable, horrific, ungodly trafficking,. Just as it was in the days of Mrs Jacobs. I can't claim to know anything about the situation before my own freedom from my state was desirous by me. I was raised where the slavery issue did not come, only the issue of the Japanese, Chinese, Mexicans, and Native Americans. 😢 I understand now how America has so many more skeletons in the closet that must be rectified, though it be ever so gradually, as the wheel of time ticks on.
Very poor research report. The memory of those who experienced slavery deserves better and far more accurate attention. Also, the photographs have been carelessly placed, with the faces cut off.
Well well well, we have a person who lineage wasn’t in America at the time telling a story about someone that was here! Plz, write a document about your family, if you know any!
That photo is of Samuel Sawyer NOT Dr Norcom. And that photo of the confederate soldier is NOT of Samuel Sawyer! Sawyer by the time of the civil war was too old to be fighting and he'd been a congressman so no, he was not a soldier! LOL
Hi Steven, Historians and researches have proven that Harriet Jacobs really wrote her own autobiography. She was quite brilliant, and many documents and letters still exist which she personally wrote. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl originally received favorable reviews, but it quickly lost attention due to the start of the Civil War. After the war ended, readers who rediscovered the work were confused as to the identity of the author; because of the use of a pseudonym, some thought that the author was Lydia Maria Child, or abolitionist author Harriet Beecher Stowe. The book was accepted as a fictional novel. From then on, prior to Jean Fagan Yellin's work in the 1970s-1980s, the accepted academic opinion, voiced by such historians as John Blassingame, was that Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was a fictional novel written by Lydia Marie Child. While re-reading Incidents in the 1970s as part of a project to educate herself in the use of gender as a category of analysis, Yellin became interested in the question of the text's true authorship. Over the course of a six-year effort, Yellin found and used a variety of historical documents, including from the Amy Post papers at the University of Rochester, state and local historical societies, and the Horniblow and Norcum papers at the North Carolina state archives, to establish both that Harriet Jacobs was the true author of "Incidents," and that the narrative was her autobiography, not a work of fiction. At the suggestion of historian Herbert Gutman, she contacted Harvard University Press regarding publication, and her edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was published in 1987 with the endorsement of Professor John Blassingame.
Hello 747Fan, Historians and researchers have been able to validate that Harriet Jacobs did indeed write her own autobiography. She was truly a brilliant lady and there was no ghost writer!
I listened to this book just yesterday, and it had a big impact on me. I felt like I knew this wonderful lady.
Me too
Me too
Me too!
Thankful to have discovered Harriet’s book when I took a Black History Class in 1974. I was so amazed & captivated. by the struggle of this incredible woman that I stayed up all night not putting it down until I finished.
The next day at work, much to my embarrassment, I fell asleep while giving the residents a smoking break. I woke up to find me Boss that shaking me. Since then, I have recommended it at least 50 if not more times .
I had the book but lost it. I listened to the book on here.
She "absconded... without any known cause or provocation..." Gosh, the blind evil of enslavers. They really believe in their own innocence. Shocking.
how sad and difficult to be with this man. She was a very strong woman
I love this woman...i love her like my mother.
The audiobook is FREE here on RUclips. Please listen to it because this is a watered down version AND....the only pictures that are accurate are the 1rst photo of Harriet as an elderly woman ( THE ONLY KNOWN PHOTO ), the painting of Dr. James Norcom, and the Civil War photo of the Samuel Sawyer. A quick GOOGLE and she could have put what are believed to be the photos of her children Louisa Matilda Jacobs- who looks a bit like her father IMO and her handsome son Joseph Jacobs- who actually looks a little like Dr Norcom IMO. I think I may actually listen to this again, been awhile.
Her father was a free man!
I have listened to her audio book a few times now. This brought tears to my eyes. If you have not read Incidents of the life of a slave girl I highly recommend it.
Your video popped up next right after the 8 part audio version of Harriett's book. I was astonished to hear this took place in Eden, NC, because I used to live near there, and my daughter actually lives there now. However, my curiosity about that led me to read some things that indicate it was actually Edenton, NC, an actual city as well, but very near the coast.
What a brave woman I wish all the best for her family x.
This book is amazing. One of my faves. This woman was a fighter
AP2TMH POWER bahashem Yashaya wa Ruwach ~
My Family lived this book, & the saga continues to this day, yet Hebrews 4:13 says nothing is hidden from his sight, all will answer to Him.
Well done, young lady! Today we would call it just that, "sexual harrassment".
She was born in Edenton, NC. It's near the coast
I was thinking that map showing her town couldn’t be right since she talks about she and others getting on ships that go up the coast.
It’s like whoever wrote the script for this didn’t read her book.
she was born 1815, not 1813, many inaccuracies
While I thank you for this short video the loud music volume and your low voice volume is frustrating.
I listened to this book yesterday. I sometimes had to put it on pause as it was so upsetting that suchlike was completely common in the slavery of our southern states! Excellent book! Eye opening...
not what we were taught in our highschool history classes!
Agreed
that's so powerful ..but now, the question is who pays for the sins done to my ancestors today...because slavery is not dead.
it's just changed hands.... and it's now showing up in the way Americans (of all type) treat each other today ...who will pay for the sins of my ancestors ....but why of course it shall be their Children,and their children's,children until the debt is paid in full.
Not sure if that will happen but money could cut down on crime.
Your comment is also powerful statement. A dept was paid at the cross of Yeshua. I realize a fulfillment of Deuteronomy 28 was fulfilled after 70 AD war, Sin continued. Sin will continue until return of Messiah. Until we learn to live together as God intended, we will remain as slave rather if your red, yellow, black or white. We've all been slaves at one time or another in a brutal way. Many still are.
Could you imagine if we dedicated at least one day a year, like a holiday, to just have everyone step out into the street and join hands at a specific time and pray, even if your a non believer, and greet one another on what kind of change it could make? Like one long chain thru the cities and thru the country. Let it spread like a Christmas holiday throughout the world.
Have you ever sat around a meeting table were nobody is really saying anything or very little. When the spoke's person stands up an goes around the table to introduce themselves and say a little something about themselves, people open up during a meeting, during break time and even after meetings. Our world doesn't seem much different. We see each other as strangers, fear or something.
It wasn't until I worked with a black person I started to get to know who black people are. Went to another job and the same thing happened. When I thought about it, we are no different. When I was confronted by a black person in a racist way, I told him I'm not that way. He soften up. I was no different. I never gave anybody a rough time but I did make racist remarks as a joke away from the color who I was referring to. It took good black people to soften me up. I now have friends who are black. Black people really are beautiful people in every way. I was under the impression that blacks couldn't be trusted and they all hated white people. I was so wrong. I think this is the first time I ever shared this with anyone. I realized that it isn't the color, but rather, it is the racist that I dislike.
If we could just all come together, red, yellow black and white, starting a once a year holiday, the harshest of curse will be lifted. with all the good people in this world, no reason evil should prevail.
God so loved the WORLD so why shouldn't we. God gave his only begotten Son. I gave up fear of other colors. WE all need to give up our sin.
I find it ironic that the Atlantic slave trade movement stopped world wide after American civil war. American's didn't even start the movement. God fulfilled Deuteronomy 28 and HE will fulfill peace on earth soon to come. God's hand at work.
1. YASHAYA prophesied about slavery of BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS & that only happen 2 the tribes that were there at that time in Jerusalem after those that DIDN'T adhere to YASHAYA see luke ie. When u see Jerusalem compase with armies... Those that fled into the wilderness(Africa) middle passage b4 deu.28:68 was 4filled. They are paying & so are we until the times of the Gentiles b 4filled. Then My 👑 King will take vengeance, it is mine saith the LORD.
The LORD has Holidays THAT everyone who links to those prophecies given to the children of Jacob by Moses should FOLLOW see Romans 3rd & 6th chapter.
Graftations CANNOT boast against the natural branches. Laws & status was shown 2 Jacob TMHGOD hasn't dealt so with any OTHER NATION;
So READ CHILDREN OF JACOB. & know YOUR place in this WORLD.
I being the same as Y holi is HOLY DAYS. STOP FOLLOWING TRADITIONS OF MEN & FOLLOW THOSE OF TMHGOD & CHRIST ~ HOLY SPIRIT;
3.CHRIST KEPT THE HOLY DAYS OF THE LAW. Romans chapter. 3. & 6
Revelations speaks of amelek;
Quam YASHARALA wake up Jacob;
Judeans first then the Gentiles~
Shalowam~
#Are the laws DONE, TMHGOD FORBID~
The majority of my people don't have the hunger for education and self sufficiency that many freed slaves had. Their mentality has become such, that they seek out things that put and keep them in bondage economically and educationally. They spurn the vast opportunities available to them and instead only have complaints. Unwilling to do anything to improve their lives, they really upon the state and others to take care of them and their children. Sadly in many cases, these self imposed chains are eagerly sought by the children, when they become of age. They rarely own businesses or property. It is a sad case of willfull ignorance. They don't know and they don't want to know. They are still slaves.
@@gnahthe That is profound and honest
How could an assumed progressive country have inflicted such barbaric torture on a people for generations, and come out unscathed, with reputations intact, to become a leading nation to be looked up to with respect and admiration? There must be many more Harriet Jacobs with stories to tell, and the courage to expose the culprits, who should hang their heads in shame.
Inhear the book a little while ago..i just donot understand.i know they had because of the fear.but i would have been a murder to them because the flesh you can kill my soul belongs to my creator...no one has a right to own another person..this hearts me..i am a black woman i would have died fighting them..RIP.Beautiful mother of many.it sad but Thank you for my History..Thank each of you..peace Love and Blessings.
This was a great review for me. I just finished the book. Thank you
I just read the book
Me too
No offense but A lot of Your Information isn't Like The Documentary that was read on RUclips by A Gentleman I just finished listening to the Full Story of this Lady took Me half a night and Finished next day I thought her Name was Linda Brent The Dr. That Had her enslaved was Doctor Flint . Her Brother name was William,her Daughter name was Ellie This do not Sound Right or True ,Not Listen at this And The Piano Music ?
Ella Warren Thank you for pointing this out.
The names used in the book are fictitious she chose not to use their real names. A lot of info on you tube are half truths you have to research different sources to get the complete story.
In the preface she disclosed that she had change the names of the people in the book.
This actually held a little more info because she gave the true names of the people and possibly a portrait of them
She used fictional names in writing the book
Read the book. Many facts are inaccurate in this video.
Right wasn’t it doctor Flint?
@ Queen Corder She says at the beginning of the book that she changed the names and places but it was a true story. Remember even she called herself, “Linda”.
Yes, like her mother died when she was 6 and she lived close to the coast, not inland as that map showed.
im looking at this again
Her mother died when she was 6 years old, not 11
Why ...that DISTRACTING piano n the background...not necessary!!!!!!!!!!
THE SONG IN THE BACKGROUND WHAT IS IT?? I DID IT IN CHOIR BUT I CANT REMEMBER THE NAME TO SAVE MY LIFE
edit: never mind i figured out if Caro mio ben
Operation Underground Railroad is what brought me to Harriet. Her book is the inspiration for the current abolitionist group battling child sex bondage as we speak.
But with rage in my soul, I am disheartened to know that America is the leading marketplace for this 150 BILLION DOLLAR slave trade. A child is taken from places in the world where it's easy to exploit orphans or impoverished minors and a huge profit is made in this child traffic. The founder went undercover to purchase children, then exposed the evil demons. (10K per child average price... So the buyers are not poor, they are rich sons of bitches)... I cry my eyes out. I beg forgiveness, even in my old age, or especially in my old age, because it's the people of my color skin doing this abominable, horrific, ungodly trafficking,. Just as it was in the days of Mrs Jacobs. I can't claim to know anything about the situation before my own freedom from my state was desirous by me. I was raised where the slavery issue did not come, only the issue of the Japanese, Chinese, Mexicans, and Native Americans. 😢 I understand now how America has so many more skeletons in the closet that must be rectified, though it be ever so gradually, as the wheel of time ticks on.
You have many facts that are wrong
you wrong!!!
Became friendly? She said he sexually assaulted her
Very poor research report. The memory of those who experienced slavery deserves better and far more accurate attention. Also, the photographs have been carelessly placed, with the faces cut off.
Well well well, we have a person who lineage wasn’t in America at the time telling a story about someone that was here! Plz, write a document about your family, if you know any!
She did NOT self publish!!! OmG.
That photo is of Samuel Sawyer NOT Dr Norcom. And that photo of the confederate soldier is NOT of Samuel Sawyer! Sawyer by the time of the civil war was too old to be fighting and he'd been a congressman so no, he was not a soldier! LOL
She was 6 when he mother died.
Phyllis wheatly did the same yrs earlier
But Phyllis Wheatley was born before her, and was a poet/writer before her
The book would have been more believable if the ghost writer had been honest about who wrote it.
Who wrote it??
Hi Steven, Historians and researches have proven that Harriet Jacobs really wrote her own autobiography. She was quite brilliant, and many documents and letters still exist which she personally wrote. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl originally received favorable reviews, but it quickly lost attention due to the start of the Civil War. After the war ended, readers who rediscovered the work were confused as to the identity of the author; because of the use of a pseudonym, some thought that the author was Lydia Maria Child, or abolitionist author Harriet Beecher Stowe. The book was accepted as a fictional novel. From then on, prior to Jean Fagan Yellin's work in the 1970s-1980s, the accepted academic opinion, voiced by such historians as John Blassingame, was that Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was a fictional novel written by Lydia Marie Child. While re-reading Incidents in the 1970s as part of a project to educate herself in the use of gender as a category of analysis, Yellin became interested in the question of the text's true authorship. Over the course of a six-year effort, Yellin found and used a variety of historical documents, including from the Amy Post papers at the University of Rochester, state and local historical societies, and the Horniblow and Norcum papers at the North Carolina state archives, to establish both that Harriet Jacobs was the true author of "Incidents," and that the narrative was her autobiography, not a work of fiction. At the suggestion of historian Herbert Gutman, she contacted Harvard University Press regarding publication, and her edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was published in 1987 with the endorsement of Professor John Blassingame.
Hello 747Fan, Historians and researchers have been able to validate that Harriet Jacobs did indeed write her own autobiography. She was truly a brilliant lady and there was no ghost writer!
@@kittygirlc4120 Wow!! Well put!