Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

By Jacobs, Harriet

Book Id: WPLBN0002951043
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File Size: 224.17 MB
Reproduction Date: 2008

Title:	Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
Author:	Jacobs, Harriet
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Memoirs
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
Historic Publication Date:	1861
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Jacobs, B. H. (1861). Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to freedom in the north, and her ensuing struggles to free her children. The narrative was partly serialized in the New York Tribune, but was discontinued because Jacobs' depictions of the sexual abuse of female slaves were considered too shocking. It was published in book form in 1861. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett).

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Memoirs