Author: Harriet Jacobs

This may be the most important story ever written by a slave woman, capturing as it does the gross indignities as well as the subtler social arrang...

In 1861, Harriet Jacobs became the first formerly enslaved African American woman to publish a book-length account of her life. In crafting her com...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the stirring autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive slave, detailing her harrowing escape ...