The unflinching nineteenth-century autobiography that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of Black women--with an introduction by Tiya Miles, recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant " A] crowning achievement .
Jacobs] remodeled the forms of the black Slave narrative and the white female sentimental novel to create a new literary form--a narrative at once black and female." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The New York Times In clear and unshrinking pros. . .
The unflinching nineteenth-century autobiography that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of Black women--with an introduction by Tiya Miles, recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant " A] crowning achievement