Shocking. Suspenseful. Educational. I devoured this book and make copious notes throughout it. What a disgusting practice slavery was. What despicable people the white Southerners were (and some still are). I would have this book in every high school English classroom if it were up to me. The pains that Linda goes through to keep her family together and alive are simply astounding. Seven years in a 7x9x3 foot space with vermin and exposure to the South’s ill climate. Horrible! This should be a mini series on TV. It needs much more attention, now more than ever.

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One of the best books I’ve read about slavery and the emotional, physical and psychological toll that it had on those in bonds. Highly recommend it to anyone who even is marginally interested in chattel slavery in America.

I read this book under the circumstances of President Trump’s first year of his second presidency term. Thus I found the story especially telling in its truthfulness and apparent accuracy in its depictions of slave life in the late 1800’s. To think that these events happened only around 150 years ago, makes them all the more appalling. I’m 78 years old so that at the time I was born, the relative time span was less than 80 years previous. Let us not forget these real life anguishing stories so as not to repeat them.

Wonderful story about a slave woman’s trials and her attempts to free her family from bondage. It will break your heart at times and then have you cheering her on. Highly recommend you read it

Moving beyond words, to learn these things in school is one but to live them is another. The author has given us a window into her world. 🙏

An incredible read and insight into the experiences and mind of a woman brought up in slavery who fought for freedom for her and her children. A portrait of fortitude and perseverance. These first hand accounts and reported incidents retold may not be surprising to read at this point of knowing American history, but doesn’t make these occurrence any less heartbreaking to read. It’s not stories of inhumanity that make this a captivating read, but Ms, Jacobs mindset.

Why was this never taught in school? It is too shameful, that’s why. An amazing account of life for a slave girl. After having visited the south and it’s plantations and museums, I felt compelled to learn more. So glad I have read this, it changes my perspective greatly.

Awesome book! Sad stories. Interesting that it is true history from a town I’m quite familiar. Inspirational.

This is the true story of many lives under slavery Though sometimes hard to endure the terrible hardships and cruelties, nonetheless the lives of real people are revealed: their degradation and triumphs through the horrors of the Antebellum South