This paper examines how Harriet Jacobs's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" is a first person slave
narrative in which
Jacobs herself, a slave girl, accounts for her life under the fictitious name, Linda Brent. It looks at how, in this
narrative, the author illustrates what being born and raised as a house servant in the South is like, as well as the abuses and brutal
violence a captive slave faces and endures. It analyzes how, with tone, understatement, irony, and metaphors, Jacobs represents the sexual and emotional violence, as well as the tyranny of the enslaved black woman.