# Who is Linda Brent in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl?

> Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Linda Brent

## Answer

Linda Brent is the name Harriet Jacobs uses for herself in this autobiographical narrative, published under her pen name with Lydia Maria Child as editor. Linda grows up partly under her grandmother’s roof, survives Dr. Flint’s sexual harassment, bears children, hides seven years in a garret, escapes to the North, and continues struggling under fugitive law until supporters help secure freedom.

Students should know Brent/Jacobs as author and speaker — the book is first-person testimony shaped for abolitionist readers, not third-person fiction. Link identity to sexual-exploitation-and-agency and to motherhood themes driving plot decisions.

## Evidence

- [incidents-in-the-life-of-a-slave-girl](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/incidents_in_the_life_of_a_slave_girl_se/chapters/incidents-in-the-life-of-a-slave-girl.md): Title and preface establish Linda Brent as narrator of incidents.
- [i-childhood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/incidents_in_the_life_of_a_slave_girl_se/chapters/i-childhood.md): Linda introduces early life and grandmother’s influence.

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