Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl : Written by Herself - Harriet Jacobs

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Written by Herself

By: Harriet Jacobs

Paperback | 13 April 2021

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The most famous autobiography written by a nineteenth-century African American woman, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a triumph of American literature and an unflinching portrayal of the evils of slavery.

"I was born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away."

In clear and unshrinking prose, Harriet Jacobs--writing under the pseudonym of "Linda Brent"--relates the story of her girlhood and adolescence as a slave in North Carolina and her eventual escape: a bildungsroman set in the complex terrain of a chauvinist, white-supremacist society. Resolutely addressing women readers, rather than men, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl sought to make white women understand the ways that the threat of sexual violence shaped the lives of enslaved black women and children.

About the Author

Harriet Jacobs, born in North Carolina in 1813, became a fugitive in the 1830s and published her autobiography pseudonymously in 1861.

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