Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl

Harriet Jacobs and Harriet Beecher Stowe were among the many an(prenominal) feminists and writers whom fought for the abolition of buckle downry during the nineteenth century. Jacobs and Beecher Stowe wrote personal slave narrations that served as a powerful feminist tool. Both books enlarge how white women were idealized as pure, angelic, and chaste while dismal woman were idealized as possessed and contained an uncontrollable, savage sexuality. Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl brought the sexual conquest of captive black women into the public and political arena. In the Incidents of a Slave Girl Jacobs revealed her real feelings and emotions behind what it was like to be not only a woman, but also a black woman escaping thraldom. Not only does Jacobs narrative focuses on subjugation due to race but it also portrays many women an strong and often open roles. It illustrates how women in these roles were very marginal and is often suffered for their outspoken roles. Jacobs will power and strength shown in her narrative are characteristics of womanly behavior in the acclivitous feminist movement.

In the Incidents Jacobs portrayed herself as Linda Brent. Linda was born as a slave in the household of a miraculously freehearted working girl. She lost her mother at the age of six, but her mistress who was her mothers half-sister took good care of her. Her mistress bequeathed onto her the gift of literacy.



The degradative reality of slavery was hidden from the author till she entered her early teens. Within a year both her mistress and her father passed away, and the household of Dr. obstinate acquired her. Lindas spoke highly of her mistress, she taught me to read and spell; and for this privilege,

which so rarely falls to the lot of a slave, I bless her...

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