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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
by Harriet Jacobs (1861)
Both a novel and an autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a sophisticated work of hybrid nonfiction. The author documents her time as an enslaved Black woman and how she and her children were able to acquire their freedom.
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304 pages first pub 1861 (editions)

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