ISBN 9780486419312
Used Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
by Harriet Ann Jacobs
Dover· 167 pp
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Harriet Ann Jacob’s autobiography, “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” documents her life as a slave and how she attained freedom for herself and her children. Harrowing in its descriptions of sexual abuse, Jacob’s slave narrative is notable for its appeal to abolitionist women to open their eyes to the realities of slavery. Deemed too shocking for reading audiences at the time, the book was shelved for a time before it was published in 1861 near the start of the Civil War.
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Biography & AutobiographyCultural HeritageLiterary CollectionsSocial ScienceEthnic StudiesAfrican American Studies