Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
Harriet Jacobs, born into slavery in 1813 in Edenton, North Carolina, is a pivotal figure in American literature and the abolitionist movement. Her autobiographical work, “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, provides a harrowing yet illuminating account of her experiences as an enslaved woman. Jacobs’s…

