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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By: Harriet Jacobs
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
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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 19th-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.
Public Domain (P)2011 Tantor
Biographies & Memoirs Black & African American Classics United States Scary
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excellent rrad

A valuable insight into the life of one slave and her children trying to achieve freedom from the South

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Amazing and heartbreaking reminder of a dar history

It was an amazing retelling of a dark history and the personal experience it came with

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