Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Author | : Harriet A. Jacobs |
Publisher | : Cosimo, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781605206325 |
ISBN-13 | : 1605206326 |
Rating | : 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Download or read book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl written by Harriet A. Jacobs and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.