A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs' narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written documenting the traumas and horrors of slavery in the antebellum South.  Meer

In 1861, aan de vooravond van de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog, doorbrak Harriet Jacobs—onder het pseudoniem Linda Brent—de stilte rond het misbruik van vrouwelijke slaven.  Meer

Harriet Jacobs’s autobiographical account of her life as a mother and a fugitive slave, now freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Editions line.  Meer