Silent No More

"Of these female slave narratives, Harriet Jacobs's book is the crowning achievement. Manifesting a command of rhetorical devices and narrative strategies rivaled only by that of Frederick Douglass, Jacobs's autobiography is one of the major works of Afro-American literature."--Alida S. Becker, New York Times

Our long-term debate against rape and the objectivation of women as sexual slaves resounds in the pages of this book about a woman who lived more than 200 hundred years ago. The fact th...