Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl By Harriet Jacobs
An authentic narrative of slave life and one of the few written by a woman.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the first full-length narrative written by a former woman slave in America.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an autobiography by a young mother and fugitive slave published in 1861 by L. Maria Child, who edited the book for its author, Harriet Ann Jacobs. Jacobs used the pseudonym Linda Brent.