Category: Book Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl

Comparing Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Our Time Real writing, soul writing is dangerous; there is an intrinsic, gut-churning element of risk within the process of telling the truth, a risk that yields an adrenaline rush that parallels skydiving and skinny-dipping. The thrill of one’s own truth displayed nakedly in little…

The book is mostly an autobiography of the author and Harriet Jacobs clearly states it in the introduction. She adds that she’d rather kept her story untold, because it is too much pain even now for her to remember everything that happened. But still, Harriet feels that she has to disclose everything she endured in…