Read an excerpt from "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" that explains how slave owners would threaten to sell their slaves' children.

Read the history of Harriet as a slave girl and her subsequent escape to freedom and role in the abolition movement. Find related links.

Written to help instructors, this profile includes classroom issues and strategies, major themes, historical perspectives, and study ideas.

Contains the full text, with the preface by the author, a glossary, images from the book, images of slave life of the time, and a time-line.

Section of a chapter for teaching American literature includes a bibliography and study questions.

Contemplate the autobiography of Harriet Ann Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." Includes the original preface by Lydia Maria Child.