Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Written by Harriet Ann Jacobs

Narrated by Mia Ellis

Length

8h 14m

Rating

4.8 (549 ratings)

Harriet Ann Jacob's autobiography documents her life as a slave and how she attained freedom for herself and her children. Harrowing in its descriptions of sexual abuse, Jacob's slave narrative is notable for the appeal it made to abolitionist women to open their eyes to the realities of slavery. Deemed too shocking for reading audiences at the time, the book was shelved before it was published in 1861 near the start of the Civil War.