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Harriet Jacobs' "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", 2006.
Summarizes and discusses the slave narrative by Harriet Jacob, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl".
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 0 sources, $ 26.95
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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."
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Harriet Jacobs' "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"., 2002.
A review of the book, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", by Harriet Jacobs.
2,100 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 0 sources, $ 65.95
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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."
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Harriet Jacobs?s "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", 2004.
Presents an argument that the main character's sexuality in "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" was a mediated space that included both degradation and power.
1,401 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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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."
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Harriet Jacobs's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", 2004.
A look at "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" and the contradictions it highlights regarding slavery and racial identity in the antebellum South.
1,827 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 58.95
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This paper analyzes the slave narrative, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", by Harriet Jacobs, and discusses the contradiction Jacobs illuminates concerning America's values of freedom and the institution of slavery in a supposedly free society.
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"In doing so, Jacobs made a dual claim. On one hand, by making slavery against the liberty of American values, she suggests that America is basically a free nation, and slavery exists in contradiction to its basic values. However, by telling her own tale, she suggests her own uniqueness and alienation from supposedly ordinary American society. Jacob?s own complex racial identity, which allowed her to pass for white at times, and yet also resulted in an enforced sexual relationship with one of her ?owners? Dr. Flint not only makes for a compelling tale?it forces and forced readers to acknowledge the constructed nature of ?blackness? and ?whiteness? as identities, rather than as mere shades of skin. Jacobs was, because of her appearance, able to perform both, and because of her identity as a female was able to give birth to a child apparently white, yet deemed a slave by a supposedly liberated American society, because a slave had mothered the child."
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Harriet Jacob's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", 2004.
Summary and review of Harriet Jacob's autobiographical narrative, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl".
945 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper describes the life story of a slave girl, as told in Harriet Jacob's autobiographical narrative. The paper looks at how Jacob's book touches upon the female experience of slavery, an aspect often missing from other slave narratives, and the way blacks had to contend with the scourge of racial inequality, even in the free states and after the Emancipation Proclamation.
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"Harriet Jacob?s autobiographical narrative, published as Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, is a poignant account of one woman?s experiences living in bondage. Linda Brent (Jacob?s pseudonym) was born as a household slave to a relatively kind mistress who taught her how to read and write by the time she was twelve. When her mistress died, however, she did not grant Linda her freedom: As a result, Linda was sent to Dr. Flint?s home, where she suffered the immeasurable brutality described in the bulk of the book. Written to alert a mostly Northern audience to the plight of slaves, the narrative effectively illustrates the horrors not only of slavery as an evil institution but also of the traumas endured on a daily basis by enslaved men and women. Moreover, what makes Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl so unique and historically significant is that it offers special insight into the experiences of female slaves, who encounter such gender-based traumas as sexual assault and the pain of being separated from their children. Jacobs peppers her account with details but changes person and place names to protect them and herself, for she eventually escaped and fled to the North."
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Harriet Jacob's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", 2004.
A discussion of Harriet Jacobs slave narrative, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", why she wrote it and who her audience was.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 55.95
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This paper explores the reasons why Harriet Jacobs, a slave who escaped to the North, wrote her slave narrative and discusses who her audience was. The paper looks at what may have motivated Jacobs to write her narrative and how she attempted to appeal to the audience of her narrative.
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"According to Gates Jr between and one hundred book-length slave narratives had been written by slaves or former slaves while six thousand and six ex-slaves had related their tales to others through interviews essays and books In fact as Gates Jr further points out this is the only time in history where those who were held in bondage as slaves were able to write about their experiences and so create new genre of literature the slave narrative He also contends that scholars have shown the link
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?Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl? by Linda Brent (Harriet Jacobs), 2002.
This paper discusses Linda Brent (Harriet Jacobs) style of writing in ?Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl?.
1,480 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 48.95
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This paper relates how Linda Brent in ?Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl? draws in the reader through her own words and experiences of the pains she suffered through her life in the South. The author feel that the writer puts her own emotive attitude into the text to give the words meaning and a passion that only comes from the soul. The author points out that Jacobs begins with a brief apology to the reader, not for her words or her style, but for their own minds thinking that her work may be a fictional piece of writing.
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"Jacobs? words have had an effect upon me. If by understanding the true account of one slave girl, we can understand the true meaning of slavery. What happened to the slaves in the Deep South was not just a matter of white supremacy but white hatred. This story can be seen to be in its rawest sense an emotional work. If it were written by anyone but an ex slave, it would not have the same effect, the words come from the heart and not from the mind."
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"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", 2007.
A review of Harriet Jacobs' novel, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl".
1,466 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 0 sources, $ 48.95
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This paper examines how in Harriet Jacobs' novel, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", the narrator takes several steps to assert her status as a person and to make a case against the dehumanization inherent in slavery. It looks at how the dehumanization of Jacobs' and other slaves in the novel is clearly shown through the sexual exploitation that they face and the separation of women and their children. Jacobs continually fights against this degradation and asserts herself as a person. It also discusses how ultimately, Jacobs is successful in obtaining her freedom through extraordinary perseverance and force of will.
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"Slavery soon became a harsh reality for Harriet. Slaves were owned by white masters and were to do exactly what was asked of them with no exceptions. Black slaves were not seen as humans but merely as property. Slavery for men and women was barbaric and inhumane, but for women, slavery had heart wrenching aspects. "Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women" (Chapter 14). What she means by this is that women would have to see their children sold and separated as soon as they became profitable. She wanted to make sure that she and her children would not have to endure that fate."
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"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"., 2002.
A look at the theme of sexuality and abuse in Harriet Jacobs' book "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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This paper explores Harriet Jacobs' book "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" as a means of exploring the sexual use of slaves and the negative impact this practice had upon society.
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"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.", 2002.
Studies the symbolism of water in Harriet Jacob's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
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Describes how Harriet Jacobs? book "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" uses water and in particular, the river as a motif of death and freedom.
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"The river is a major motif in Harriet Jacobs? autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The narrator finds kindness, freshness, and change on the waterways, as she travels from place to place in search of peace and freedom. The river also serves as a geographic and political barrier between her and her captors; even when she is in danger of being caught, Linda can once again embark on a river boat for safer havens. The river is a physical means of escape in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, but it is also a means of symbolic or spiritual escape."
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"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", 2006.
This paper analyzes the dehumanizing effects and struggles of female slavery in Harriet Jacobs's book "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
1,090 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper examines the struggles of female enslavement, the dehumanizing effects of slavery as well as ultimate escape of author Harriet Jacobs, as detailed so vividly in her book "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." This paper also focuses on Jacobs's gender which lends a certain uniqueness to the experiences surrounding her struggles and her final resulting escape.
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"Of course, many masters abused their female slaves, certainly lending justification to escape by these women. This is true in the story, as Jacobs describes the events leading to Dr. Flint's abuse. Furthermore, she explains that feelings and emotions that surround many households, particularly between masters and mistresses, because of this sexual abuse. Dr. Flint's abuse of Jacobs, however, led to another form of oppression because of her gender. Mrs. Flint initially offers Jacobs protection from Dr. Flint's advances. Although this offer is made out of jealousy, Mrs. Flint takes Jacobs into her room to sleep at night."
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"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", 2006.
A review of "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", the autobiography of Harriet Jacobs.
2,106 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 66.95
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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!".
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"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", 2004.
A review of the book, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", written by Harriet Jacobs.
1,000 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper discusses Harriet Jacobs's novel, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl". The paper describes the extraordinary strength of character exhibited by Jacobs in her quest for freedom from slavery. The paper portrays how Harriet Jacobs goes to almost superhuman lengths to assert her status as a person and rebel against the dehumanization of slavery.
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"In Harriet Jacobs' novel, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, the narrator takes several steps to assert her status as a person and to make a case against the dehumanization inherent in slavery. The dehumanization of Jacobs' and other slaves in the novel is clearly shown through the sexual exploitation that they face, and the separation of women and their children. Jacob's continually fights against this degradation, and asserts herself as a person. She refuses the advances of Mr. Flint, chooses another man with which to have an affair, and ultimately goes to the extremes of hiding in a cramped garret to assert her independence. Ultimately, Jacobs' is successful in obtaining her freedom, but she only obtains freedom through an extraordinary perseverance and force of will."
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"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", 2005.
This paper reviews the autobiography of Harriet Jacob's, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl".
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This paper explains that Harriet Jacob, born in 1813 into the life of slavery, had a relatively easy childhood until about the age six. She was taught to read at a relatively early age, which was most unusual for a slave. The author points out that Jacob wrote, "Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women," because women had to see their children sold and were forced to have sexual relations with white men. The paper relates that Jacob escaped to New York, later writing this book, which was self-published in 1861 and is considered the most comprehensive slave narrative written by a woman.
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"Throughout her slave life Harriet battles with white master's sexual control over slave women. In her case it was Dr. Flint, her master, who pursued sexual relations with Harriet repeatedly. Dr. Flint tells Harriet, "he told me that I was made for his use, made to obey his command in every thing; that I was nothing but a slave, whose will must and should surrender to his, never before had my puny arm felt half so strong" "
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'Incidents In The Life of a Slave Girl', 2006.
A review of the book 'Incidents In The Life of a Slave Girl' by Harriet Jacobs.
2,068 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper critically examines Harriet Jacobs' 'Incidents In The Life of a Slave Girl'. The paper argues that one of the narrator's critical strategies for escaping her master's designs include gaining some limited control over her sexuality.
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"Jacobs focuses on many other themes tied in with this including highlighting her role as a mother and as a family member. Linda's role as mother serves to enhance her sexual agency and further inspires aggression and frustration from her would be perpetrator, Dr. Flint. However her motherhood also protects her in some ways from Dr. Flint's advances and affords her greater strength and purpose to carry on despite her harsh circumstances. Linda's narratives in the work include many themes that are evidenced in other slave narratives including stories and tales of survival and freedom, however the work is most well noted for its focus on sexuality and themes of motherhood (UNC, 2004). Jacobs focuses on the "cruel realities that plagued black women in the nineteenth century" (Gates, 2001; UNC, 2004). These realities are evidenced in Brent's inner thoughts and deeds including her decision to become a mother out of wedlock. "
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