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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl |
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Harriet Jacobs - Author
Myrlie Evers-Williams - Introduction by
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| Book: Paperback: Mass Market | 4.17 x 6.73in | 256 pages | ISBN 9780451527523 | 01 Jan 2000 | Signet Classic | 18 - AND UP |
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In one of the most significant slave narratives ever written, Harriet Jacobs, born a slave to mulatto parents in 1813 North Carolina, recounts her remarkable story. From her sale to an abusive master, to her bid for freedom as the lover of a white man, to her ultimate and harrowing emancipation, this work is an outstanding example of a woman's extraordinary courage--and one of the most provocative first-person accounts of slavery in American history
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