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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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Harriet Jacobs
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Release Date
June 30, 2011
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9 hours 0 minutes
Summary
Published in 1861, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an autobiographical account of the author's experiences as a slave in nineteenth-century North Carolina, from her relatively happy childhood to the brutality she experienced as a teenager and young woman to her eventual escape to the North. One of the few slave narratives written by a woman, Jacobs's work deals frankly with the horrors of slavery, shedding light on the abuses female slaves in particular often endured at the hands of their masters. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a gripping, unflinchingly honest account of slavery, one that stands as an important counterpoint to male slave narratives by such authors as Frederick Douglass.
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Profile Avatar Anonymous Jul 2020

Moving and fascinating history of one woman’s horrendous experience in slavery and her victories throughout.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Author: Harriet Jacobs
Read by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
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