Harriet Jacobs
- Books on site
- 1
- Total words
- 81,200
- Reading time
- 4.5 h
- Years covered
- 1861
- Longest
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs (1813 – 1897) was born enslaved in Edenton, North Carolina, and spent nearly seven years hidden in a crawlspace above her grandmother’s storeroom before escaping north in 1842. She worked as a nursemaid in New York and as a relief worker in Washington during and after the Civil War, and wrote her life under the pseudonym Linda Brent; Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl appeared in 1861, with an introduction by Lydia Maria Child, and is now read as one of the central American slave narratives.
1free edition81,200words on site~4.5 hreading time1861years covered
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl| Year | Title | Words | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1861 | Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl | 81,200 | ~5 h |
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