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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
The Givens Collection
by Harriet Jacobs
Introduction by: Louise Meriwether
Product Details:
Washington Square Press, May 2003
Trade Paperback: 272 pages
ISBN-10: 0743460561
ISBN-13: 9780743460569
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Writing as Linda Brent, Harriet Jacobs's unflinching, powerful narrative of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and of her eventual escape and emancipation, is a damning account of the evils and brutality of slavery.
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