# Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself - Harriet Jacobs

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Podcast: [The Ambassadors](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ambassadors-7032241)
Published: 2026-07-25T09:00:33+00:00
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## Resource

"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself" by Harriet Jacobs, under the pseudonym Linda Brent, offers a poignant and harrowing account of her life as a slave in North Carolina. The narrative chronicles her escape to freedom and her relentless fight to liberate her children from the bonds of slavery. Jacobs' candid depictions of the sexual abuse faced by female slaves were so shocking that they led to the discontinuation of her serialization in the New York Tribune.

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