Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs

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sell her to Mr. Sands with whom she had two kids, but didn’t work the work she planned. Linda implies that slavery is harder for female slaves than for male slaves because males are stronger than females and can protect themselves from any problem. Females have to face more than just slavery. It can include anything and everything possible like sexual relationships and sexual assaults.

The most important ways that Jacobs attempts to deal with and resist the demands of slavery, particularly the difficulties created by Flint are by getting married to/ have a relationship with the white neighbor, Mr. Sands. When she realizes that this is not working and affect Mr. Flint, she tried escaping to the North but couldn’t escape because she could not leave her kids behind just for saving her from slavery. She also tried to send her kids to the North in order to protect them from slavery. The strategies she used and actions that she took where to hide in the attic, send her kids to her aunt Martha and Mr. Sands where she had a hope that her kids could get out of slavery.

The Nat Turner Rebellion played an important role in Jacobs life because it was a slave rebellion where slaves killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the American South. This scared Jacobs because she was one of the slaves that could lose her life in the rebellion. The Fugitive Slave Law was a federal law that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States. The Fugitive Slave Law scared her because even if she escaped to the North, this law allowed the soldiers to send her back to the slave life in the south. Both the Nat Turner Rebellion and The Fugitive Slave Law were things that showed her the reality that no matter what she was a slave and will be a slave. This rebellion and laws stopped her from being free and live her life as the normal whites lived.

After reading the Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, I believe the most troubling aspects of being a slave is dealing with the problems and torture of people that are your owner. Slavery destroys the morality of slave holders, almost without exception. They inflict every conceivable kind of torture on their servants. Most slave masters view slaves as little more than animals or objects, never acknowledging humanity. I think this book is a great influence and material to check through and make others realize that how people faced in the times of slavery. Yes, I would definitely recommend this book to people because it gives a great point of view of what slavery was like and how it felt to be one of it.

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