Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl\' is a powerful and compelling story of Harriet Jacobs whose dauntless spirit and faith carried her from a Life of servitude and degradation in North Carolina to liberty and reunion with her children in the North.
Though she was unable to take her children with her at the time they were later reunited..
Jacobs eventually escaped her master and moved to a northern state.
Harriet Jacobs was owned by a brutal master who beat his slaves regularly and subjected them to indignations that were far worse.
Slavery is a terrible thing, but it is far more terrible and harrowing for women than for men.
Jacobs writes frankly of the horrors she suffered as a slave, her eventual escape after several unsuccessful attempts, and her seven years in self-imposed exile, hiding in a coffin-like \'garret\' attached to her grandmother\'s porch.
This is one of the few Slave narratives written by a woman.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl\' is a powerful and compelling story of Harriet Jacobs whose dauntless spirit and faith carried her from a Life of servitude and degradation in North Carolina to liberty and reunion with her children in the North
