Harriet Jacobs's autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), is the most widely-read female antebellum slave narrative. Unlike other published versions of this book, the editor, Delroy Constantine-Simms (C.Psychol) has included interviews and photographs of more than 30 women who were born and lived through the period of slavery who lived long enough to tell their often untold and unheard stories, that many of us need to hear in order to understand the true nature of slavery from a female perspective at that point in time.