ampampquotThis may be the most important story ever written by a slave woman capturing as it does the gross indignities as well as the subtler social arrangements of the time.ampampquotKirkus Review ampampquotOf female slave narratives Harriet Jacobss Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself is the crowning achievement. Manifesting a command of rhetorical and narrative strategies rivaled only by that of Frederick Douglass Jacobss autobiography is one of the major works of AfroAmerican literatureampampquotHenry Louis Gates Jr. Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl the autobiography of Harriet Jacobs was initially written with the intention of illuminating white abolitionists to the appalling treatment of female slaves in the preCivil War South of the United States.