Linda Brent (Harriet Jacobs)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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“$300 Reward! Ran away from the subscriber, an intelligent, bright, mulatto girl, named Linda, 21 years of age. Five feet four inches high. Dark eyes, and black hair inclined to curl; but it can be made straight. Has a decayed spot on a front tooth. She can read and write, and in all probability will try to get to the Free States. All persons are forbidden, under penalty of the law, to harbor or employ said slave. $150 will be given to whoever takes her in the state, and $300 if taken out of the state and delivered to me, or lodged in jail.”
An African American woman’s autobiography, telling the true and harrowing story of her life as a slave girl and finally her escape to the North. This book deserves not only to be read as a testimony to human cruelty and as a lesson in US history, but also for its literary value — this is a gripping story, well told by one who survived to tell it.
About the Author
Harriet Jacobs, who wrote her autobiography under the name Linda Brent, was born as a slave in Edenton, North Carolina, in 1813 or 1815. After her escape, encouraged by Amy Post, a leader in the anti-slavery and women’s rights movements, she wrote her autobiography, and after its publication in 1861 became a well known and well respected activist, involved in the abolitionist and feminist movements and in relief and education efforts in the South during and after the Civil War.