Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Slavery is terrible for men, but it is far more terrible for women, Harriet Jacobs states plainly in this riveting account of her life as a slave, and then sets out to recount, in chilling detail, the particular horrors for women caught in that terrible snare. Published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, *Incidents* was the first account of slavery to explore the sexual abuse female slaves endured… in Jacobs’ case, a catalog of harassment she suffered while working in the home of a doctor known to have sold children he’d fathered with slave women. Long believed to have been written by a white author as a fictional novel, *Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl* rings with a ghastly truth that still has the power to haunt modern readers.