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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Author: Harriet Jacobs
Narrator: Lisa Renee' Pitts
Unabridged: 9 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Published: 06/30/2011
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Includes: Bonus Material
Synopsis
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.