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Summary Of Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl By Harriet Jacobs

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In Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs tells of her experiences as a slave. She had to endure the hardships that came with both being black and a woman in 1861. As a slave she was supposed to serve and obey her master. As a woman she was supposed to be submissive to men. She describes several situations in her memoir that would make me oppose slavery if I were a Northern white woman in 1861. Life as a slave was hard enough and being a slave mother only made it harder. “When I lay… I felt how much easier it would to be to see her die than to see her master beat her… The spirit of the mothers was so crushed by the lash… ‘broken in’ to that degree” (Jacobs 96-97)? With showing how distinct life was for both white free mothers
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