Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs is a seminal text in African American literature in its exploration of the slave experience from a female point of view. The work offers an intimate...

Reader be assured this narrative is no fiction. I am aware that some of my adventures may seem incredible; but they are, nevertheless, strictly true. I have not exaggerated the wrongs inflicted by Slavery;...

Reader be assured this narrative is no fiction. I am aware that some of my adventures may seem incredible; but they are, nevertheless, strictly true. I have not exaggerated the wrongs inflicted by Slavery;...