num_pages: 336
description: This writing is a reprint of an autobiography first published in 1861 under a pseudonym. It tells the story of a woman born a slave in 1813 and how she struggled all her life to free herself and those she loved.Her writing, modern in several respects prefigures many of the developments in the later literature of the South'
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: 52157
places: North Carolina
publisher: Harvard University Press