The Cage of Obscene Birds: Harriet Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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Season 1 Episode 6: In the Cage of Obscene Birds: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs.

Created by: Daniella Sorrentino for the Feral Culture Lab: feralculturelab.com , dsorrentino.com

Harriet Jacobs is voiced by Portia Cue, VoiceOnCue.com

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For this episode I used two editions:

Jacobs Harriet, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, Penguin Books, London, Eng 2000

Jacobs Harriet, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, (Enlarged Edition), The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, and London Eng. 2009

I also used the following web-pages as references:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Jacobs

https://www.humanitiestexas.org/news/articles/before-and-after-civil-war

https://www.britannica.com/event/American-Civil-War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_narrative

https://www.britannica.com/art/slave-narrative

Here is the link ton the slave narratives from the Federal Writers Project in the Library of Congress:

https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/

BIO: Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery around 1813, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, is her auto-biography, her own account of her life in slavery, and the harrowing years, decade she spent on the run, after her escape.

“You may believe what I say; for I write only that whereof I know. I was twenty-one years in that cage of obscene birds. I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks.” Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

MUSIC:

Swing Low Sweet Chariot: written by Wallace Willis, c1865, performed by Antioch Mass Choir, licensed via soundstripe. https://app.soundstripe.com/artists/563

Oh, Freedom: writer unknown. c1865 performed by Antioch Mass Choir, licensed via soundstripe. https://app.soundstripe.com/songs/13065

Sound Effects:

Rain on a Summer Day

"Vlatko Blažek Varaždin, Croatia e-mail: [e-mail]

http://www.freesound.org/people/VlatkoBlazek/"

Pendulum Clock: Janacp

https://freesound.org/people/janacp/sounds/253997/

night-montepio-frogs-crikets-and-night-birds : Globofonia

https://freesound.org/people/Globofonia/sounds/587720/