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

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

Books about slavery are always a hard read and they always make me cry, especially knowing that it isn't that long ago that slavery still existed in parts of the world and that it's still existing today. This book is a pretty brutal and harsh read that doesn't really hold anything back. It focuses on mothers and their kids - all of them slaves. The kids were usually separated from mothers and sold and the mother rarely saw them again after that. But it also talks about an amazing woman who ran away from her masters and managed to save and free both herself and her kids.