Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Details: Originally published under the alias Linda Brent.
Warning: this book contains descriptions of physical and sexual abuse.

Summary: In this autobiography, Harriet Jacobs documents her life as a slave and tells the story of her harrowing journey to escape and gain freedom for herself and her children.
During and immediately after the Civil War, she went to the Union-occupied parts of the South together with her daughter, founding a school for fugitive and freed slaves.