Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Written by Harriet Ann Jacobs

Narrated by Mia Ellis

This story of a young black mother's life as a slave and how she attained her freedom was one of the first and most harrowing slave narratives published.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media
• Release date: Jan 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9781666575460

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813–1897) was an African-American writer who escaped from slavery and became an abolitionist speaker and reformer. Her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, was one of the first slave narratives to explore female slaves’ struggles with sexual harassment and abuse and described their efforts to protect themselves and their children.

Reviews for Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

[Kendra Kennell · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This was a great book to actually hear how slavers were treated as property and how cruel their masters really were. What a sad part of the American history. Let us never repeat this again!

[Amie Campbell · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Wow what a gripping story. It is remarkable that Harriet survived and persevered through incredible misery

[Lucia Garcia · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

As expected, it is heartbreaking and made me angry at every turn of the page.
The fact that it is written by the hand of an actual former slave, instead of retelling of her story, makes it so much more powerful.
This woman was extraordinary.