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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
by Harriet Jacobs

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Genre 1 key example

Key Examples in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a particular type of memoir called an enslaved person's narrative. Like other enslaved people's narratives, such as Frederick Douglass's, the memoir documents the events of Jacobs's life during her enslavement and after she escapes. Also like other enslaved people's narratives, it is both a memoir and a persuasive document written for people who might be convinced to join the abolitionist cause.