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"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.
Harriet Ann Jacobs (February 11, 1813 - March 7, 1897) was an
American writer, who escaped from the horrors of slavery and became
an abolitionist speaker and reformer. Jacobs' single work,
'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl', published in 1861 under
the pseudonym Linda Brent, was one of the first autobiographical
narratives about the struggle for freedom by female slaves and an
account of the sexual harassment and abuse they endured.This
important primary source includes a new introduction by Emmy award
winning writer and historian Bob Carruthers.
Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813 1897) was born into slavery in North
Carolina, but escaped to the north to flee her owner's sexual
advances. This autobiography was published under a pseudonym in
1861 to protect her family. She became involved with the
Anti-Slavery Society, speaking at meetings in support of abolition.
The book was aimed at middle-class white women, and stresses the
impact of slavery on women's chastity, as slaves were frequently
sexually exploited. She is highly critical of the nominal
Christianity of the culture of the southern States. Much of the
narrative deals with her efforts to regain her children, who had
remained her master's property. Jacobs' first-hand account was an
early publication of its type, and many found the abuse she
suffered shocking and unbelievable. Jacobs became a role model for
freed slaves, in taking control of her life, and helping others to
adapt through education.
Harriet Jacobs's autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave
Girl (1861), is the most widely-read female antebellum slave
narrative. Unlike other published versions of this book, the
editor, Delroy Constantine-Simms (C.Psychol) has included
interviews and photographs of more than 30 women who were born and
lived through the period of slavery who lived long enough to tell
their often untold and unheard stories, that many of us need to
hear in order to understand the true nature of slavery from a
female perspective at that point in time.
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