Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Annotated) (Oshun Publishing African-American History Series Book 3)

Includes
* Foreword/historical context
* Study Guide
* Chapter Analysis
* Character Breakdown

Originally published in 1861, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was written by Harriet Jacobs, who tells the true story of her life a slave in the South, and her decision to runaway in order to escape vicious beatings, sexual abuse, and the possible sale of her children.

Jacobs wrote this controversial account at the urgings of Boston abolitionists, but chose to write it using the name Linda Brent in order to protect the people who aided in her escape -- and evasion of capture -- from being subject to criminal prosecution.

Originally scheduled to be published in serial form in The New York Tribune, the serial was canceled after the first few chapters, when it was deemed too sexually graphic for newspapers. The first-person narrative is 80,000 words long, and also touches on long discussed slavery issues such as Christianity and Slavery, the Nat Turner Rebellion, and The Fugitive Slave Act of 1950.

- This edition is one of the Oshun Publishing African-American History Series and contains a foreword/historical context by Karen E. Quinones Miller -- author of An Angry-Ass Black Woman
- Includes a Study Guide which provides Chapter Analysis, Character Breakdown, and Useful Questions and Answers
- Includes an excerpt of "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave"