Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

by Harriet Jacobs

Overview

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a book that was published in 1861 by Harriet Jacobs, using the pen name "Linda Brent". While on one level it chronicles the experiences of Harriet Jacobs as a slave, and the various humiliations she had to endure in that unhappy state, it also deals with the particular tortures visited on women at her station. Often in the book, she will point to a particular punishment that a male slave will endure at the hands of slave holders, and comment that, although she finds the punishment brutal in the extreme, it cannot compare to the abuse that a young woman must face while still on the cusp of girlhood.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014128131
Publisher:	Philtre Libre
Publication date:	04/11/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	180 KB

About the Author

Author of the classic slave narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.