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Books by Harriet Jacobs

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Jacobs - Author
Nell Irvin Painter - Editor/introduction
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eBook: Microsoft Reader | 320 pages | ISBN 9781101120774 | 01 Jul 2000 | Penguin Classic
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation, Harriet Jacobs's classic narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published pseduonymously in 1861, tells firsthand of the horrors inflicted on slaves. In writing this extraordinary memoir, which culminates in the seven years she spent hiding in a crawl space in her grandmother's attic, Jacobs skillfully used the literary genres of her time, presenting a thoroughly feminist narrative that portrays the evils and traumas of slavery, particularly for women and children.
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