Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Cosimo Classics Biography)

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 hed 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.