“Why does the slave ever love? Why allow the tendrils of the heart to twine around objects which may at any moment be wrenched away by the hand of violence?”

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...