Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War

Diversion Books is publishing seminal works of the era: stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an America that had come apart at the seams.

Harriet A. Jacobs and Her Narrative

Among the first of slave narratives to be published, Harriet A. Jacobs led an extraordinary life, punctuated by the limitless hardship of slavery, made indelible by the sheer power of her words. In this narrative she writes candidly of the treatment she witnessed and endured as a slave, as well as her dramatic escape to freedom.