If you were moved by Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave, we’d recommend this stirring autobiography of Harriet Ann Jacobs, a woman who was enslaved in North Carolina. Written and published before the Civil War, this moving account details her fight for freedom and the brutal realities of slavery.
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Harriet Ann Jacob’s autobiography documents her life as a slave and how she attained freedom for herself and her children. Harrowing in its descriptions of sexual abuse, Jacob’s slave narrative is notable for the appeal it made to abolitionist women to open their eyes to the realities of slavery.
Deemed too shocking for reading audiences at the time, the book was shelved before it was published...
Harriet Ann Jacob’s autobiography documents her life as a slave and how she attained freedom for herself and her children. Harrowing in its descriptions of sexual abuse, Jacob’s slave narrative is notable for the appeal it made to abolitionist women to open their eyes to the realities of slavery.
Deemed too shocking for reading audiences at the time, the book was shelved before it was published in 1861 near the start of the Civil War.
