Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781605209326)

"Slavery is terrible for men, but it is far more terrible for women," Harriet Jacobs states plainly in this riveting account of her life as a slave, and then sets out to recount, in chilling detail, the particular horrors for women caught in that terrible snare. Published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, Incidents was the first account of slavery to explore the sexual abuse female slaves endured... in Jacobs' case, a catalog of harassment she suffered while working in the home of a doctor known to have sold children he'd fathered with slave women. Long believed to have been written by a white author as a fictional novel, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl rings with a ghastly truth that still has the power to haunt modern readers.

Author: Harriet Ann Jacobs
ISBN-10: 1605209325
ISBN-13: 9781605209326
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2009
Pages: 178
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.1
Point Value: 14
Interest Level: Upper Grade
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