“No matter whether the slave girl be as black as ebony or as fair as her mistress. In either case, there is no shadow of law to protect her from insult, from violence, or even from death.”

About Harriet Ann Jacobs

Author • American

Harriet Ann Jacobs was an African-American writer who escaped from slavery and became a prominent abolitionist and reformer. Her single work, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," is a powerful autobiographical novel...