| Title | : | Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl |
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| Author | : | Harriet Jacobs |
| Release | : | 2011-06-30 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Fiction |
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| 1 | Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl | Harriet Jacobs |
| Published in 1861, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an autobiographical account of the author's experiences as a slave in nineteenth-century North Carolina, from her relatively happy childhood to the brutality she experienced as a teenager and young woman to her eventual escape to the North. One of the few slave narratives written by a woman, Jacobs's work deals frankly with the horrors of slavery, shedding light on the abuses female slaves in particular often endured at the hands of their masters. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a gripping, unflinchingly honest account of slavery, one that stands as an important counterpoint to male slave narratives by such authors as Frederick Douglass. |
