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.
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Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl is a devastating yet empowering document that uniquely focuses on the psychological and spiritual effects that bondage had on women slaves and their families.
For over seven years, Linda remains in hiding, until she ultimately escapes North to be reunited with her children.
Sand.
Linda escapes and goes into hiding in a small attic, and her children are eventually sold to Mr.
Flint instead decides to subject them to further degradation.
Sands, Dr.
Expecting that she and her children will be sold to Mr.
Sands, a white neighbor who ends up fathering her two children.
In an attempt to circumvent the situation, Linda enters into a relationship with Mr.
He is a negligent and cruel new master who subsequently pressures Linda for sexual favors, yet she resists his demands for years.
Flint.
When the mistress passes away Linda is handed over to Dr.
Linda is taught to read and write, and is generally treated with respect.
Born into a relatively calm Life as a young child to slaves, she is taken into the care of a kind mistress when her mother dies.
In this astonishing book, Harriet Jacobs uses the pseudonym of Linda Brent to recount her story as a slave, a mother, and her eventual escape to the north.
The book was later rediscovered in the 1960\'s, and it was not until the 1980s that it was proved to be an extraordinary work of autobiographical memoir as opposed to fiction.
Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl , the autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, was initially written with the intention of illuminating white abolitionists to the appalling treatment of female slaves in the pre-Civil War South of the United States.
Manifesting a command of rhetorical and narrative strategies rivaled only by that of Frederick Douglass, Jacobs\'s autobiography is one of the major works of Afro-American literature-Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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
