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

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Ann Jacobs with Myrlie Evers-Williams

256 pages first pub 1861 (editions)

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

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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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tense 36%
inspiring 34%
hopeful 14%
adventurous 6%

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