Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Jacobs, Harriet / Smith, Valeria![Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/226/22683455/CHSBZCOP0322683455.jpg)
Not only one of the last of over one hundred slave narratives published separately before the Civil War, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) is also one of the few existing narratives written by a woman. It offers a unique perspective on the complex plight of the black woman as slave and as writer. In a story that merges the conventions of the slave narrative with the techniques of the sentimental novel, Harriet Jacobs describes her e...