This paper relates how Linda Brent in "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" draws in the reader through her own words and
experiences of the pains she suffered through her life in the South. The author feel that the writer puts her own emotive
attitude into the text to give the words meaning and a passion that only comes from the soul. The author points out that Jacobs begins with a brief apology to the reader, not for her words or her style, but for their own minds thinking that her work may be a fictional piece of
writing.