Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Author: Jacobs, Harriet

c 1800 to c 1900

Published on 22 May 2025 by Union Square & Co. in the United States as part of 'the Signature Editions' series.

Paperback / softback | 248 pages
134 x 203 x 19 | 258g

Written by Harriet Ann Jacobs, using the pen name 'Linda Brent,' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl  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.