Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the autobiography of Harriet Ann Jacobs, a mother and abolitionist who escaped slavery with her children after hiding in her grandmother's attic for seven years. Written to expose the horrors of life in slavery and appeal to free women in order to earn their support in ending slavery, the book chronicles the many abuses she experienced as a slave and her years-long journey to escape to freedom for herself and her children in the North. Today, Incidents of a Slave Girl serves as a powerful extant account of the abuses faced by enslaved women in the 1800's.

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