Analysis Of Harriet Jacobs Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl

When I hear the word slavery, the only thing that comes to my head is cruelty. I could not even imagine how a human can threat another one like animals, as if they were and inferior or less because of the skin color. The idea of being able to read a book that was written by someone that lived during this years of brutality amazed me. Harriet Jacobs was taught how to read and write by her mothers mistress, this was not common for many of the slaves, and it is the reason why she used the name “Linda” to talk about herself during her stories, because if by any chance her master knew that she could read and write, she would have had the punishment of being whipped and put in jail. During the first chapters of her book we could notice that not all her years as a slave were miserable. In fact the first six years of her life were happy, because she didn’t know she was a slave, once she grew up her innocence started to fade, her days started to turn dark and sad. As described in her book the living conditions were like hell on earth. Slavery not only affected the slaves, it also completely destroyed moral
Flint. He was the main representation of slavery and cruelty. In almost every chapter of the book “Linda” fights against the sexual intentions that her master had, most of the time slaves were more scared of the jealously of the mistress, Mrs. Flint directed her abuse at Linda, she felt humiliated because she was unable to control her husband, but she couldn’t say anything because she knew how important Linda was for him. The second main argument was the poor treatment that the slaves were receiving from their holders, such as how Dr. Flint was doing with his slaves, inflicting them with every type of torture