Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Ann Jacobs with Frances Smith Foster, Nellie Y. McKay

nonfiction classics gender history memoir race dark emotional sad medium-paced

390 pages | first published 1861

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After hiding in her grandmother’s attic for seven years, Harriet Ann Jacobs was finally able to escape servitude—and her master’s sexual abuse—when she fled to the North. Once there, she became a very active abolitionist, and her correspondence wi...
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