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Title: Letters From a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs by Mary E. Lyons ISBN: 0-689-80015-0 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.29 (34 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: ok book___reviewed by S.Miller
Comment: The story, Letters from a Slave Girl: The story of Harriet Jacobs by Mary E. Lyons, tells about the life of a slave girl named Harriet Jacobs who was able to survive slavery. This book is dramatic at times and still very suspenseful. It tells about Harriet's hardships, her first love, and about the type of men she trusts and turns to in time of need. Harriet's family is very important to her, as it is obvious in this book. Harriet turns to her family more than anyone else in this book. They are the only ones she knows she can come to at any time.
Harriet was harassed by one of her owners when she was about 14 years of age. He wouldn't actually touch her or threaten to touch her till she was older. Harriet met her first love R at a dance. They were in love at first sight and wanted to be together all the time. When R was finally free he asked Harriet to marry him. When Harriet asked Dr. Norcom for his permission he said if she wanted to be married she would have to marry one of his slaves. Just to make Harriet miserable he said if he ever found out whom she wanted to marry, he would have him shot down in the very spot he stood. Harriet, afraid for R's life, told him to go away and have a good life. Harriet then met a man who said that he would offer her any attention she needed. His name was Samuel Sawyer. Harriet went to him and had sex with him. She was using him as a sort of protection. Also she thought he might be able to help her find freedom. Turns out that Samuel Sawyer and Dr Norcom aren't good friends because of something happening a long time ago. When Harriet found out that she was pregnant she told Dr Norcom that she was pregnant she finally won a battle, but the war was not won yet.
I think this is an ok book, but I wouldn't suggest it to people who are looking to an interesting book. But this is an ok book to read in school.
Rating: 4
Summary: This book was o.k
Comment: The Main Charactor is Harriet Ann who is a slave.
Letter`s From a slave girl is about 12 year old Harriet Ann who is a slave.She slaves for mistress who refuses to sell her.Harriet keeps a diary of notes to her mom,dad and R, but I dont know who R is because she refuses to write his name in her book just incase Mistress shall find it.Harriet wants to get married but mistress wont let her because he`s white and she`s black.there are a lot of preguidice people in this book and this is a long time ago before Martin Luther King Jr.In this book she talks about her mom and dad dieng and it made me cry because if my mom or dad shall ever die i would be...[sad].But Harriet will think positive sometimes but when shes talking to her grandma she tells her every thing.Harriet has a younger brother who teases her and this black boy next door.I know how she fells when she gets teased and she does not like it.
I would reccomend this book to anyone because if you ike sad books this is the right one.And if you dont like sad books than you might not like this book.when i read this book i thought my life was hard but hers was even harder because she is a slave.And also she lost her parents.So go to your library and look for `Letters From a Slave Girl` you`ll like it a lot!
Rating: 5
Summary: A clear picture of slavery
Comment: I never had a clearer picture of slavery until I read this book.The Author's Note at the end was fascinating. I found that Lyons based the fictional Harriet's grammar and spelling on the real Harriet's letters, written twenty to thirty years after she escaped. Lyons also used real ex-slave narratives collected in North Carolina in the 1930's by the Works Project Administration. Did some of these former slaves speak in dialect? Yup. Some spoke standard English, too. Just like today, Southern speech has many voices, and that's what makes it interesting. Finally, readers of the Author's Note will discover that when the real Harriet wrote her narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, she, too, invented dialogue with dialect.
Have you ever noticed how Southern speech, both black and white, is often mocked in print, television, and movies? This is a quick and dirty way for the media to suggest stupidity. Without even realizing it, viewers might absorb the message that Southerners, especially African Americans, are inferior. But that message is flat-out wrong. Southern speech is loaded with metaphor, imagery, humor, and wisdom. That's why many people enjoy reading literature set in the South. So if you are one of them, read Letters from a Slave Girl! It's about as close as you can get to an authentic Southern black voice from 19th century coastal North Carolina.
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Title: To Be a Slave by Julius Lester, Tom Feelings, S. November ISBN: 0141310014 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: From Slave Ship to Freedom Road by Julius Lester, Rod Brown ISBN: 0140566694 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Daily Life on a Southern Plantation 1853 by Paul Erickson ISBN: 0140566686 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation: A Three-Dimensional Interactive Book with Photographs and Documents from the Black Holocaust Exhibit by Velma Maia Thomas ISBN: 0609600303 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 07 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs ISBN: 0486419312 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 09 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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