Curated OER
Gender, Sex, and Slavery
While examining slavery's impact on women, historians compare and contrast the perspectives of a plantation mistress and an enslaved woman, both reflecting on the system of forced prostitution. Text analysis and written responses create...
Curated OER
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 12 multiple choice questions about Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
Curated OER
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Essay Questions
In this literature worksheet, students respond to 31 short answer and essay questions about Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Students may also link to an online interactive quiz on the novel at the bottom of the page.
Curated OER
What We Leave Behind
Students listen in on American historical events. In this colonial America lesson, students participate in an activity that requires them to watch video segments that detail slavery and participate in an Incidents in the Life of a...
University of Michigan
Making of America: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
At this site from the University of Michigan, you can read individual pages of Harriet Jacobs' book, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," and search the text for specific words and phrases.
University of North Carolina
Unc: Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl
Here, read Harriet Jacobs' (1802-1880 CE) "Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl" and learn biographical information about Jacobs. Also provided at this website are several reports by Jacobs on the conditions of slaves and freedmen and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: The Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
This collection uses primary sources to explore Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs.
PBS
Africans in America: Harriet Jacobs
Read about Harriet Jacobs'(1813-1897 CE) childhood as a slave and her escape from slavery -- the experiences from which she created her slave narrative, "Indidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," which "Was one the first open discussions...
CommonLit
Common Lit: What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North
A learning module that begins with "What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North," an excerpt of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Ann Jacobs, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion...
Other
New York Public Library: Incidents in the Life
Here read Harriet Jacobs' "Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl." The text is organized by chapter