Is Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) CHUD or WOKE?
chudrank score: 74 / 100 (WOKE-leaning (left-wing)). 0 is CHUD (right-wing), 100 is WOKE (left-wing).
Book by Harriet A. Jacobs, 1861.
10 votes: 50% WOKE, 50% CHUD.
Why: Slavery memoir; abolitionist
The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains among the few extant slave narratives written by a woman. This autobiographical account chronicles the remarkable odyssey of Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897) whose dauntless spirit and faith carried her from a life of servitude and degradation in North Carolina to liberty and reunion with her children in the North. Written and published in 1861 after Jacobs' harrowing escape from a vile and predatory master, the memoir delivers a powerful and unflinching portrayal of the abuses and hypocrisy of the master-slave relationship. Jacobs writes frankly of the horro…