incidents of a slave girl
"In her book, Incidents in the 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. ... The slave narrative became a powerful feminist tool in the nineteenth century. Black and white women are fictionalized and objectified in the slave narrative. ... Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl, brought the sexual oppression of captive black women into the public and political arena. ... Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl gives a true account of the brutality slavery held for women. ... She suggests that slave women be judged by different standards than those applied to other women. ... In Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Jacobs’ primary ordeal is the persistent sexual harassment and obsessive pursuit by Dr. ... Of all the women that Linda Brent meets, not one fits the mole of a true woman in slave times. ... Aunt Martha counsels Linda to be submissive to her master and accept her fate as a slave but her words can not be effective because she is now on the outside. ... After her escape, Linda is assisted by a slave holding white woman. ... Not only does she involve herself in the manner but she takes the side of a slave over a man of her own kind. ... Linda rebels against the model of womanhood, but she maintains a sense of feminism due to her trials and tribulations as a slave. ... Power is a commodity that no slave is allowed, but Linda gathers power form the moment she accepts she will not be a true woman.