Harriet Jacobs\'s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains the most-read woman\'s slave narrative of all time.
Yellin\'s groundbreaking scholarship restores a Life whose sorrows and triumphs reflect the history of the nineteenth century, from slavery to the Civil War,.
Jean Fagan Yellin recounts the experiences that shaped Incidents-the years Jacobs spent hiding in her grandmother\'s attic from her sexually abusive master-as well as illuminating the wider world into which Jacobs escaped.
Harriet Jacobs\'s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains the most-read woman\'s slave narrative of all time