The author, ex-slave Harriet Jacobs, speaks through her narrator LindaBrent to reveal a story of enslavement, degradation, and sexualexploitation. A book-length narrative, it is often cited as thecounterpart to Frederick Douglass' <I>An American Slave, Written byHimself.</I><P>Addressing white women in the North about the bondage of blackwomen in the South, it focuses on five distinct phases in Linda Brent'slife.