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Describe some of the challenges Linda Brent faced while she lived under Flint, in Harriet Jacobs in "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl".

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A short biographical note about Harriet Jacobs, an escaped slave who published the book "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" under the pseudonym Linda Brent.

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Harriet Jacobs was an escaped slave and thus had to publish her only work, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," under the pseudonym Linda Brent. Obviously, this was to protect her identity. It was also likely that part of the reason she published under the name Brent is that it sounded more like the name of a white person than an African American.

Brent faced challenges getting her work published. Her first publisher agreed to print the work, only if she could ...

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