INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL

"Writing about the abolitionist movement in the 1840s, one northern editor commented, 'Argument provokes argument, reason is met by sophistry; but narratives of slaves go right to the heart of men.' A genre that first appeared in 1760, the slave narrative helped persuade much of antebellum America that slavery was a great blight on the nation's integrity as a system totally irreconcilable with moral and spiritual values...." p. v, "Note" INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL, by Harriet Jacobs (Dover Pubs., Mineola NY: 1861, 2001)