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Incidents in the life of a slave girl
Incidents in the life of a slave girl
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Childhood, the first chapter of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: "I was born a slave but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood passed away."
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Incidents in the life of a slave girl
Harriet Jacobs
autobiography