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... Harriet Ann Jacobs was born a slave, but never once was treated as one until the death of her mother at the age of six. A writer, abolitionist, reformer, and educator, Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was the single most important slave narrative ever published by an African American woman. ... in 1813, Jacobs endured the breakup of immediate family more than once in her lifetime as a result of slavery. ... In Incidents Jacobs tells the story of her life through the character Linda Brent. ... Thereafter, Jacobs becomes the property of the mistress’s three-year-old niece, Mrs. ... Jacobs describes the anguish of this separation in a section entitled “The Children Sold” Jacobs writes, “I bit my lips till the blood came to keep from crying out. ... The suspense was dreadful” (Jacobs, 161). To Jacobs, her family was of the utmost importance. ... Slavery is terrible for men; but is far more terrible for women” (Jacobs, 71). ...
Moreover, Jacobs’s narrative becomes dialectical because it only exposes sexually exploitation but also the accessibility of the African slave woman, who, because of her usually forced sexual relations with white males, inadvertently becomes a blamed victim. Evens Jacobs’s grandmother in Incidents questions the narrator’s character when she consciously chooses to bear children by a white male. ... As Jacobs approaches adolescence, the middle aged Norcom subjected her unrelenting sexual harassment and, when she was sixteen threatened her with concubinage. ... When Jacobs was 21, Norcom said if he did not agree to become his concubine, he would send her to one of his plantations. Jacobs again rejected his sexual demands and was taken to a plantation.
Approximate Word count = 1352
Approximate Pages = 5.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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