Harriet Jacobs is born a slave in North Carolina. As a teenager, she is pursued by her master's advances. To escape him and protect her children, she hides for seven years in a tiny attic at her grandmother's house, watching her children through a small hole, before she can flee to the North.
It is one of the few slave narratives written by a woman. In it she says what others kept silent: what slavery did to women and mothers.
She tells her life simply, like a confidence, and her story is a moving read in the language you are learning.
