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

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself
ISBN-10
1492281778
ISBN-13
9781492281771
Series
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Category
Social Science
Pages
166
Language
English
Published
2013-08-30
Publisher
CreateSpace
Author
Linda Brent

Description

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself Linda Brent A True Story of American Slavery Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a slave narrative that was published in 1861 by Harriet Ann Jacobs, using the pen name "Linda Brent." The book is an in-depth chronological account of Jacobs's life as a slave, and the decisions and choices she made to gain freedom for herself and her children. It addresses the struggles and sexual abuse that young women slaves faced on the plantations, and how these struggles were harsher than what men suffered as slaves. The book is considered sentimental and written to provoke an emotional response and sympathy from the reader toward slavery in general and slave women in particular for their struggles, with rape, the pressure to have sex at an early age, the selling of their children, and the treatment of female slaves by their mistresses.

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