Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl

Harriet Jacobs and Harriet Beecher Stowe were among the many feminists and writers whom fought for the abolition of slavery during the nineteenth century. Jacobs and Beecher Stowe wrote personal slave narrations that served as a powerful feminist tool. Both books illustrate how white women were idealized as pure, angelic, and chaste while black woman were idealized as possessed and contained an uncontrollable, savage sexuality. Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl …

…of Harriet Jacobs during a time when slavery was the main aspect of life. Being that she lived during this time period with the war and the conflicts that followed the publication of her timeless masterpiece, this true story is an American classic delving deep into the hearts of citizens and challenging the authority and the government of the United States in the mid 1800's. One can only imagine the kinds of controversies Jacobs stirred.