Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

<p>Harriet Jacobs was not an ordinary slave girl and her autobiography is not an ordinary account of the miseries of slavery. She was a slave who triumphed not only by luck but by careful planning and daring deceit.  <em>Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl </em>the most important and most widely read female slave narrative presents the subtle humiliations in addition to the simple brutality of slave life especially for enslaved women and children.    </p><p>This gripping account first published under the pseudonym Linda Brent skilfully employs rhetorical and narrative devices to create a gripping and evocative story.  Indeed until Jean Yellin’s over work a century later it was regarded as a work of fiction.</p>