Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

"Slavery is terrible for men, but it is far more terrible for women," Harriet Jacobs states plainly in this riveting account of her life as a slave, and then sets out to recount, in chilling detail, the particular horrors for women caught in that terrible snare. Published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, *Incidents* was the first account of slavery to explore the sexual abuse female slaves endured... in Jacobs' case, a catalog of harassment she suffered while working in the home of a doctor known to have sold children he'd fathered with slave women. Long believed to have been written by a white author as a fictional novel, *Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl* rings with a ghastly truth that still has the power to haunt modern readers.

Author: Harriet Ann Jacobs
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Published: 08/01/2009
Pages: 174
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781605206325
ISBN10: 1605206326
BISAC Categories:
- History | African American & Black
- Literary Collections | American | General
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies