Incidents In The Life of a Slave Girl: The Life of Harriet Jacobs (With Study Guide and Historical Analysis)

Originally published in 1861, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was written by Harriet Jacobs, who tells the true story of her life as a slave in the South, and her decision to run away in order to escape vicious beatings, sexual abuse, and the possible sale of her children. Jacobs wrote this controversial account at the urgings of Boston abolitionists, but chose to write it using the name Linda Brent in order to protect the people who aided in her escape -- and evasion of capture -- from being subject to criminal prosecution. Originally scheduled to be published in serial form in The New York Tribune, the serial was canceled after the first few chapters, when it was deemed too sexually graphic for newspapers. The first-person narrative is 80,000 words long, and also touches on long discussed slavery issues such as Christianity and Slavery, the Nat Turner Rebellion, and The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. - This edition is one of the Oshun Publishing African-American History Series and contains a foreword by Karen E. Quinones Miller -- author of An Angry-Ass Black Woman - Includes a Study Guide which provides Chapter Analysis, Character Breakdown, and Useful Questions and Answers - Includes an excerpt of "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave"