Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
by Harriet Jacobs
- Length
- 37 mornings, about 2,200 words a reading
About the book
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a memoir by Harriet Jacobs, published in Boston in 1861 with an introduction by its editor, L. Maria Child. Jacobs was born into slavery in North Carolina and lived in a slave state for twenty-seven years. In her preface she explains that she has concealed the names of places and given the people false names, so she tells her story as Linda Brent.
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