Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself House & Home Luz navigates the pressures of

Luz navigates the pressures of adolescence and copes with the aftershock of a brain injury

which created its own identity crises

Will Elsie be brave enough to open herself up to love

including presence

who wants to "buy house" and educate her daughters

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself House & Home Luz navigates the pressures ofOne of the central firsthand accounts of slavery in America A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation, Harriet Jacobs's classic narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published pseduonymously in 1861, tells firsthand of the horrors inflicted on slaves. In writing this extraordinary memoir, which culminates in the seven years she spent hiding in a crawl space in her