Abstract
The paper argues that published slave narratives such as "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs are of historical importance, for they provide the best evidence available regarding the personal experiences, feelings and reactions of black men and women to their enslavement, and present direct and compelling personal accounts of slavery which differ considerably from those available in general history books. The paper asserts that primary sources such as Harriet Jacob's slave narrative provide a much needed human perspective to the study of slavery, for they examine religious and gender aspects of slavery while revealing stark and disturbing truths about the inhumanity of this institution that many secondary sources and mainstream histories gloss over or ignore altogether.

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"Published slave narratives such as "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs are of historical importance, for they provide the best evidence available regarding the personal experiences, feelings and reactions of black men and women to their enslavement, and present direct and compelling personal accounts of slavery which differ considerably from those available in general history books. Primary sources such as Harriet..."

Tags:life, slave, girl

Abstract
This paper reports on several chapters from the book "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs, telling of her life as a slave to Dr. Flint, who wants her body and soul but whom she hates more and more as time passes. The paper explains how the book shows the nature of slave life, especially for women, and the inability of the slave to have any control over her own life.

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"Harriet Jacobs in her book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl states that she was born a slave and had a happy childhood until she learned that she was a slave at six years of age. Her father was a carpenter allowed to work at his trade, and though he wanted to purchase his children, he was never able to do so. She had a younger brother. She discusses the travails of members of her family and notes how all were treated as property and little more by their masters."

Tags:slave, history, chapters

Abstract
The paper discusses Harriet Jacobs' "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" and asserts that it remains one of the most captivating and compelling autobiographical slave narratives. The paper looks at the major themes explored, including the different types of slavery, the Fugitive Slave Law, religion and spiritual salvation and the fight for freedom. The paper opines that Harriet Jacobs' book is interesting, historically relevant and easy to read.

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"Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an autobiographical narrative recounting the author's journey to freedom and the impact she made on the abolitionist movement. She has no formal credentials for writing the narrative and in fact was assisted in compiling it by the abolitionist activist Lydia Maria Child. However, her personal experiences are all Jacobs needs to bring her story to the world: a heart-wrenching series of anecdotes that illustrate the horrors of slavery. Her credibility lies mainly in there having been accurate records of her life, and the entire book is comprised of her stories and personal reflection on them."

Tags:Fugitive, Slave, Law, religion, salvation, freedom, abolitionists

Abstract
This paper reviews Harriet Jacobs' autobiography "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl". This paper discusses how, in her autobiography, Harriet Jacobs used domestic ideology of violated womanhood to sway her Northern audience to the cause of abolition.

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"In Chapter 1, Jacobs stresses the angelic quality of her early upbringing, much like the idealized version of childhood cherished in the 19th century portrayal of a happy home. " I was so fondly shielded that I never dreamed I was a piece of merchandise, trusted to them for safe keeping, and liable to be demanded of them at any moment." She also notes that "in complexion my parents were a light shade of brownish yellow, and were termed mulattos," a not-so subtle mention of the fact that her parents were at least partially white, creating an evident racial as well as domestic sense of sympathy between herself and her white readers whom she wished to convert to the abolitionist cause." Her uncle "inherited the complexion my grandmother had derived from Anglo-Saxon ancestors." (Jacobs, Chapter 1, http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/JACOBS/hjch1.htm)
The plantation owner of Jacobs' maternal grandmother set her free. Thus Jacobs stresses that she was born, in some sense, free, in a venue of conventional, almost white hearth and home. This sense of conversation with the reader is further underlined by Jacobs' reference to the reader in an intimate fashion, as if she or he is beside her side. "The reader probably knows that no promise or writing given to a slave is legally binding; for, according to Southern laws, a slave, being property, can hold no property. When my grandmother lent her hard earnings to her mistress, she trusted solely to her honor. The honor of a slaveholder to a slave!".

Tags:slave, immorality, corrupted, abuse, vulnerable, female

Abstract
This paper examines the sexual duality in the life of Linda, a slave girl and the main character from Harriet Jacobs's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl". The paper shows how sexuality informs the life of an African American slave woman in ways that cannot be articulated by free women from the North or even by African American male slaves.

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"Published in 1861, Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the first published narrative authored by a woman who was a former slave. However, despite this distinction and the earlier slave narratives of Frederick Douglass and John Brown, Jacob chose to conceal her identity and to publish under the pseudonym Linda Brent."

Tags:sexual, narrative, humiliation, bondage, southern, patriarchy, victim, master, powerlessness

Abstract
This paper focuses on the most prominent theme in Harriet Jacobs' "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" that is the unique and severe hardships that women faced under slavery. The paper details the sexual threats female slaves faced from both male slaves and slave owners alike, how slavery affected the relationship of slave mothers and their children, and the severe psychological torment slave women suffered.

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"When Harriet Jacobs states that, "the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality and in fact renders the practice of them impossible", she intends to portray the fundamental sin of slavery through the horrific burden it places on a slave's soul and psyche. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a based on real life testament of the debilitating effects of this institution on a woman who is enslaved in her earliest years and whose story ends with her still working for a white woman. Jacobs' story, told through the character of Linda, makes a case for the greater difficulty of slavery on women through the psychological torment she endures, and the relationships she has with her children, grandmother, and male owners Dr. Flint and Mr. Sands."

Tags:sexual, abuse, freedom, suffering, fear, captivity

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This paper explains that, in recent decades, Harriet Jacobs' "Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl", published in 1861, is being interpreted as a narrative not only about a slave but also about a woman, a victim of a sexual abuser and a mother who sacrifices her chances for freedom to protect her children. The Christianity of the slaves in the story, the author relates, is demonstrated by the ways they use their Christian faith as a tool in the lives of slave and the master and mistress. The paper concludes that Jacob's narrative still holds relevance in the need for Christians to fight racism, sexism and discrimination.

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"This is designed to offend the reader's Christian sense of honor and decent behavior. One is reminded of the old maid, buying the old female slave in order to release her, and this compares unfavorably with it. It is also made clear that Dr Flint takes sexual advantage of the women under his power, and several have his babies, although Mrs. Flint is callous to their suffering. ...
"As we are told that the baby is 'nearly white', the presumption that Dr Flint is the husband, as he is of other children."

Tags:baby, sexual abuse, christianity wife discrimination

Abstract
This paper examines how Harriet Jacob's autobiography, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", is a traditionally fashioned slave narrative printed around 1861. In it, one sees a fascinating and tragic personal view of the American past that both parallels traditional histories and also highlights elements of those histories that might otherwise escape notice. It shows how one can see in this story a definite sense of bowing to overwhelming, white preconceptions and moralities, particularly in terms of the expected behavior of a "virtuous" unmarried girl, and how there is also a large amount of what must have then been controversial condemnation of many of the aspects of American culture.

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"The setting for this tale begins in the more Northernly of the slave-owning states, and at the end is transferred to the actual Northern Free States. These setting allow the author not only criticize the "peculiar institution" of slavery in the South, but also to make cutting and vital observations about problems in the North such as prejudice and laws which returned slaves to their masters. One of Jacobs main points regarding slavery is a refutation of the idea that slavery is in any way beneficial for society at large. She refutes this idea by trying to expose the corruption that exists across Southern culture as a result of slavery. One gets a sense of rot and complicity from her description of the Southern setting which is obviously designed to act against the idea of slavery."

Tags:prejudice, masters, north, south

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This paper reviews the autobiography "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", by Harriet Jacobs, written under the pen name Linda Brent. The author classifies the novel as a feminist novel, that takes a strong look into the eyes of a mother who loses her children either by unavailability of doctors, theft, or sale. The paper summarizes Linda's story of tortures of a slave sexually abused by her master, and the dichotomy of the master and slave relationship, which was all too common throughout the history of slavery.

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"Harriet directs this to white readers, to dissolve any myths that were about at that time, saying that slave narratives were mostly false or exaggerated. She states her main character as a real person, so that any reader will refrain from immediately viewing the novel as fiction. She also tells her story emphasizing the trials of motherhood in slavery. This is an important contribution, because most slave narratives were written by men. Male slave narratives emphasized physical pain, torture, and endurance, while Harriet writes a new type of novel detailing female emotional and physical struggles."

Tags:slavery, sexual abuse

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This paper reviews and summarizes the book, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl". It looks at the various degrees of treatment of slaves, raised in the book and establishes the stance that slavery was a prevalent practice throughout America before its abolishment, existing in varying degrees of freedom, from slave, through free-colored individual, to white American.

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"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. Her struggle involves her constant degradation from her master; the danger of being sexually exploited by her mistress' husband, Dr Flint; her broken relationship with a free colored man; her pregnancy to a man named Mr Sands; and her fight for her and her children's freedom from slavery. All of these experiences helped Linda learn to fight justly for her right to become a free individual, but most of all, to be subordinated to Dr Flint, the man who wanted so bad to exploit her, yet, was not able to because of Linda's vigilance and determination not to be forever bounded by the rule of slavery, that is, that she, her children, and her descendants will forever be the slaves of the Flint family."

Tags:slavery, abolition, North, South, freedom, white, african