Good and Free = Great

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Joyful Things   Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a slave narrative that was published in 1861 by Harriet Ann Jacobs, using the pen name "Linda Brent." The book is an in-depth chronological account of Jacobs's life as a slave, and the decisions and choices she made to gain freedom for herself and her children. It addresses the struggles and sexual abuse that young women slaves faced on the plantations, and how these struggles were harsher than what men suffered as slaves. The book is considered sentimental and written to provoke an emotional response and sympathy from the reader toward slavery in general and slave women in particular for their struggles[citation needed], with rape, the pressure to have sex at an early age, the selling of their children, and the treatment of female slaves by their mistresses. Amazon has a ton of books that Prime members can get for free for use on iPad or any computer, actually.  I just read Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl  (which Wikipedia excerpt appears above).  What is compelling about it is the mind boggling literary gift  Harriet Jacobs had.  I mean, she was self taught to read by her grandmother, and her  depictions of Southern life and customs  during the early 19th century are riveting, at least I found them so.  All of the characters are real, and are identified in the Wikipedia narrative.  While I was reading Slave Girls, I was also reading  Also free in any number of formats.  Elegantly writ by a participant in the battle, and just the  first of  several short stories.  Free is good.  Good and Free is great.

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