"This may be the most important story ever written by a Slave woman, capturing as it does the gross indignities as well as the subtler social arrangements of the time."-Kirkus Review "Of female Slave narratives, Harriet Jacobs \'s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl , Written by Herself is the crowning achievement.
Manifesting a command of rhetorical and narrative strategies rivaled only by that of Frederick Douglass, Jacobs\'s autobiography is on. "This may be the most important story ever written by a Slave woman, capturing as it does the gross indignities as well as the subtler social arrangements of the time."-Kirkus Review "Of female Slave narratives, Harriet Jacobs \'s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl , Written by Herself is the crowning achievement
