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In her harrowing autobiography, Jacobs provides an essential window into the realities of slavery in the antebellum South, by documenting the sexual abuses, painful exploitations, and daily struggles of her life as a slave. These torments continued even once she escaped, as she was relentlessly pursued by her former master.
Acutely distressing in its descriptions of sexual abuse, Jacob's slave narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is notable for the appeal it made to abolitionist women to open their eyes to the realities of slavery, and as a testament to one woman's unbending will and extraordinary courage.