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

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

124 pages | first published 1861

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I was born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in his trade, that, when buildings out of the common line were to be erected, he was se...
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