num_pages: 234
description: The author, the child of mulatto parents, recounts her childhood in slavery, the abuse she suffered, her escape to the North, and the help she received from both blacks and whites, and documents the degradation and injustices of slavery. Reprint.
language: English
title: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
titlecomplete: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
characters: James Norcom, John  Jacobs, Louisa Sawyer, Molly Horniblow, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Cornelia Grinnel Willis, Samuel Tredwell Sawyer, Joseph Sawyer
genres: African American, Biography, Classics, History, Autobiography, Race, Historical, Nonfiction, Memoir, School
ratings_count: 52155
places: North Carolina
publisher: Signet Classics