num_pages: 256
description: This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader appreciate Jacobs' perspectives and language. DRIVEN BY THE HORRORS of slavery and fear of a predatory master, Harriet Jacobs, a young black woman, makes the fateful, life-altering decision to escape. Long thought to be the work of a white writer, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the captivating and terrifying story of Jacobs' daily life on a plantation in North Carolina, her seven years of hiding, and her ultimate triumph. Jacobs wrote her autobiography in 1861, under a pseudonym to protect the lives of the friends and family she left behind, and the work had been essentially lost until the mid-twentieth century. Now recognized as a classic, unflinching portrait of slave life, Incidents exposes slavery on a level comparable only to that of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
language: English
title: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
titlecomplete: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
characters: Molly Horniblow, Cornelia Grinnel Willis, Louisa Sawyer, James Norcom, Harriet Ann Jacobs, John  Jacobs, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Samuel Tredwell Sawyer, Joseph Sawyer
genres: Historical, History, Classics, School, Biography, Memoir, African American, Autobiography, Race, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 52148
places: North Carolina
publisher: Prestwick House, Inc.