Incidents in a life of a slave girl
Date Submitted: 09/09/2006 23:37:47
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 3 pages (706 words)
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 3 pages (706 words)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl are Harriet Jacobs's reflections on what slavery meant to her as well as all women in bondage. In order for one to truly understand the essence of Jacob's autobiographical narrative, one must be extremely personal and honest regardless of their relationship with the public. If it is too personal, however, the reader looses sight of the bigger picture, and does not relate all these hardships to the …
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…only take away one's constitutional rights, but took away ones mental and physical being. Her definition of freedom can be only explained through the mental and physical stresses Dr. Flint induced. When a mother would rather die with her children than live and work for a master, freedom isn't the only thing being taken away. Slavery also takes away the soul.
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