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Article: Incidents in the life of a slave girl: written by herself.
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- September 12, 1987
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INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL:
Written by Herself.
By Harriet A. Jacobs. Edited by Jean Yellin Fagan. Harvard University Press. 252 pp. $37.50. Paper $9.95.
"Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.' Writing these words in 1861, Harriet Jacobs, a newly emancipated fugitive slave, announced the special subject of her narrative: her struggle, as a woman and mother, against sexual oppression in slavery. That subject, along with her literary style, makes Jacobs's work unique in the genre of the slave narrative. She is careful to identify herself as a woman and her audience as female; and her style is that ...