American Literature / Unit 9 AML 0809 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Harriet Jacobs and *Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl*
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The idea
Harriet Jacobs published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in eighteen sixty-one as Linda Brent. It tells what the male narratives leave out: that an enslaved woman's ordeal included her owner's sexual pursuit, and that her resistance took another shape.
In practice
The narrative the male books do not tell.
Where people slip
Published under a pseudonym, and long doubted.
Your place on the trail
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