Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By: Harriet Ann Jacobs

Narrated by: Mia Ellis

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Harriet Ann Jacob's autobiography documents her life as a slave and how she attained freedom for herself and her children. Harrowing in its descriptions of sexual abuse, Jacob's slave narrative is notable for the appeal it made to abolitionist women to open their eyes to the realities of slavery. Deemed too shocking for reading audiences at the time, the book was shelved before it was published in 1861 near the start of the Civil War.

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Harriet Ann JacobsMia EllisDreamscape Media, LLC

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African American Historical Fiction

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This was a well-written, well-read first-person account of a harrowing journey to freedom. This isn't the most dramatic, or the worst enslaved person's narrative that you'll ever hear, but I think that's what makes it so powerful. She herself doesnt experience the level of sexual violence and extreme brutality of the 'peculiar insitution' that we associate with this type of book. She speaks plainly of the daily struggles of retaining ones humanity while enduring absolute inhumane circumstances. As a woman, as a mother as a HUMAN, her story touched my heart.