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

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Ann Jacobs

240 pages first pub 1861 (editions)

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

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Harriet Ann Jacobs (February 11, 1813 - March 7, 1897) was an American writer, escaped slave, abolitionist speaker and reformer. Jacobs' single work, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym "Linda Brent", was o...

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tense 34%
hopeful 14%
adventurous 6%

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