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Topic:Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl
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Life of a Slave Girl
"Incidents in the Live of a Slave Girl" is a moving story of one black woman's struggle in early America. Jacobs shows how she became part of the families she lived with and who held her as a slave, but shows how her own family came first. She saved her children from slavery, but white people also used and abused her. She shows she was a strong woman who knew right from wrong, but could not help but "sin" at times because of her background and her circumstances. Black slaves had very little choice except to submit to their masters' wishes or run away. Jacobs did both at times in her life, and they were the right choices at that particular time.
Jacobs wanted people to understand what she went through, and her story does that. Her grandmother loses a loan to her owner, her own grandson is sold away from her, and Harriet grows up to understand that she is the property of someone else, and might never be free. She also shows what really went on in Southern households, and that the men would sleep with…
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Jacobs, Harriet. "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." The Heath Anthology of American Literature. 4th Edition, Paul Lauter, ed.
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Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs relates to the readers her experiences as a slave girl in the Southern part of America. Her story started from her sheltered life as a child to her subordination to her mistress upon her father's death, and her continuing struggle to live a dignified and virtuous life despite being a slave. Her struggle involves her constant degradation from her master; the danger