Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an unflinchingly honest account of the experiences of a female slave in nineteenth-century North Carolina.[...]

A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and of her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs' classic narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, tells firsthand of the horrors inflicted on slaves. In writing this extraordinary memoir, which culmina[...]

A collection of fictional letters retells the life of Harriet Ann Jacobs, a young slave who escaped to the North in the 1840s and became a published author. An ALA Notable Children's Book & ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reprint.[...]

A firsthand account of a mulatto woman's desperate flight from the sexual abuse of her Southern master[...]

This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume.

Frederick Douglass's Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlightening and incendiary text. Born into slavery, Douglass became the preeminent spokesman for hi[...]