Although the excerpt is not included in this question, we can still provide some information about the text Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. This text is an autobiography by author and fugitive slave Harriet Jacobs. Some of the things that you can learn in this text are: the way African American slaves were treated in the United States; the differences in how England and the United States treated slaves, the way slave laws operated or how the abolitionist movement worked at the time.