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Area book group chooses memoir of former slave

The community book group sponsored by the Oconee Democrats picked "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs for its February book discussion.

Initially using only the pseudonym "Linda," Jacobs was the first black woman to publish a first-person account of life as a slave.

The group will gather at 7 p.m. Feb. 23 at the Taco Stand in the Publix Shopping Center on Georgia Highway 53, Watkinsville.

Frederick Douglass' more famous memoir was published in 1845, while Jacobs' book came out in 1861, the year the Civil War began.

According to Pat Priest, an organizer of the book group, Jacobs grappled with different issues such as sexual assault and motherhood, but also widened the focus of the narrative of her long path to freedom by encompassing the role of communities working together to help escaped slaves.

Jacobs became an advocate for slaves emancipated by President Abraham Lincoln, co-founding a school with her daughter in Alexandria, Va., and, after the war, working to educate former slaves in Savannah.

Jacobs' story includes incredible aspects - seven years of hiding in an attic crawl space - that caused some people to doubt her story. Priest said others questioned the veracity of the book because they found it hard to belie

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