Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself

A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs' narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written documenting the traumas and horrors of slavery in the antebellum South. A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs'' narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written documenting the traumas and horrors of slavery in the antebellum South.

• | Author: Harriet Jacobs, Nell Irving Painter
• | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: Nov 24, 2005
• | Number of Pages:
• | Language:
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780140437959
• | ISBN-10: 0140437959