Harriet Ann Jacob’s autobiography, “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” documents her life as a slave and how she attained freedom for herself and her children. Harrowing in its descriptions of sexual abuse, Jacob’s slave narrative is notable for its appeal to abolitionist women to open their eyes to the realities of slavery. Deemed too shocking for reading audiences at the time, the book was shelved for a time before it was published in 1861 near the start of the Civil War.
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Mia Ellis is a graduate of the Brown/Trinity Rep MFA Acting Program and a member of the Resident Acting Company at Trinity Repertory Company. In addition to working on stage, she can be seen on film and television, including in Elementary, Person of Interest, What Would You Do?, and Louder Than Words. Based in Providence and New York, she also works as a teaching artist, a writer, and an audiobook narrator.
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