We have changed our privacy policy. In addition, we use cookies on our website for various purposes. By continuing on our website, you consent to our use of cookies. You can learn about our practices by reading our privacy policy.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Trivia

Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge

In England, Incidents was published as The Deeper Wrong. We have to ask: deeper than what? (Source.)

Mr. Sands was actually a U.S. Representative named Samuel Tredwell Sawyer. His official biography, shockingly, doesn't say a word about Harriet Jacobs. (Source.)

Jacobs survived slavery, the Civil War, and a lot of Reconstruction. She died in 1897 at the age of 85. (Source.)