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The Slave Girl is a 1977 novel by Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta [1] that was published in the UK by Allison and Busby and in the US by George Braziller. It won the Jock Campbell Award from the New Statesman in 1978. [2] [3] The novel was Emecheta's fourth book; it was dedicated to her editor Margaret Busby. [4]
Sapphira and the Slave Girl is Willa Cather's last novel, published in 1940. [1] It is the story of Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert, a bitter white woman, who becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful young slave. The book balances an atmospheric portrait of antebellum Virginia against an unblinking view of the lives of Sapphira's slaves.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself is an autobiography by Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive slave, published in 1861 by L. Maria Child, who edited the book for its author. Jacobs used the pseudonym Linda Brent. The book documents Jacobs' life as a slave and how she gained freedom for herself and for her children.
Harriet Jacobs [a] (1813 or 1815 [b] – March 7, 1897) was an African-American abolitionist and writer whose autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, is now considered an "American classic".
Clotee's best friend on the plantation is a very strong girl named Spicy. Spicy desperately wants to change her name to Rose (the name her mother picked out for her), but is forced to accept the name given by her owners. Clotee later writes in Spicy's Bible, the only keepsake that Spicy has from her mother, that Spicy's name is actually Rose.
Slave Girl an American Technicolor adventure comedy film; The Slave Girl, 1530 Croatian drama; They Came on Viking Ships, 2005 Australian children's historical novel which was retitled as Slave Girl in 2007; The Slave Girl, written by Buchi Emecheta; Slave Girl, a fictional character in Brian K. Vaughan's comic book series Saga
About 25 years after a pregnant woman was found strangled to death in a Toronto parking lot, authorities have arrested and charged a suspect. In a Feb. 7 press release announcing the arrest of 50 ...
Her life is captured in her 1898 autobiography, A Slave Girl's Story, Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold. It offers a message of racial uplift, faith, and education. [2] "It is a rare portrait of a former slave who moved between the highly urbanized environment of New York City and the rural South." [3]