Harriet Jacobs was not an ordinary Slave girl, and her autobiography is not an ordinary account of the miseries of slavery.
This gripping account, first publ.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, the most important and most widely read female Slave narrative, presents the subtle humiliations in addition to the simple brutality of Slave life, especially for enslaved women and children.
She was a Slave who triumphed not only by luck but by careful planning and daring deceit.
Harriet Jacobs was not an ordinary Slave girl, and her autobiography is not an ordinary account of the miseries of slavery