Harriet Jacobs
US History
November 30, 2014
Harriet Jacobs Paper The act of slavery was an extremely controversial and prominent matter in the 19th century and was the main reason that the United States was divided. There were several different economic factors among English settlers that initiated the notion of slavery. The North and the Southern economy differed where the North wished to put an end to slavery and in the South slavery was vital for cheap labor. Throughout history there have been various speeches and books written about slavery and its abolition. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl written by Harriet Jacobs is a narrative of the female author’s life story as a runaway slave. “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” is a speech given by Frederick Douglas in 1852 where he stresses the wrongfulness of slavery and encourages Northern whites that abolition is adequate. http://americainclass.org/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an autobiography written in the 1850s about the hardships Harriet Jacobs encountered as a slave. Her motive in creating the book for the public would support the antislavery movement. Jacobs’s pen name in the narrative is Linda Brent between the 1820s through the 1840s. Linda was born into slavery and it was when her mother and her mother’s mistress dies that she was placed with cruel masters. Dr. Flint, the father eventually begins to sexually harass and threaten Linda for years before she finally escapes. She agrees in having an affair with Mr. Sands and together they had two children. She consents to this because she assumed when Dr. Flint found out about her love affair he would sell her to Mr. Sands however this was not the case. Instead, she is sent to his plantation and used for labor.
November 30, 2014
Harriet Jacobs Paper The act of slavery was an extremely controversial and prominent matter in the 19th century and was the main reason that the United States was divided. There were several different economic factors among English settlers that initiated the notion of slavery. The North and the Southern economy differed where the North wished to put an end to slavery and in the South slavery was vital for cheap labor. Throughout history there have been various speeches and books written about slavery and its abolition. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl written by Harriet Jacobs is a narrative of the female author’s life story as a runaway slave. “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” is a speech given by Frederick Douglas in 1852 where he stresses the wrongfulness of slavery and encourages Northern whites that abolition is adequate. http://americainclass.org/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an autobiography written in the 1850s about the hardships Harriet Jacobs encountered as a slave. Her motive in creating the book for the public would support the antislavery movement. Jacobs’s pen name in the narrative is Linda Brent between the 1820s through the 1840s. Linda was born into slavery and it was when her mother and her mother’s mistress dies that she was placed with cruel masters. Dr. Flint, the father eventually begins to sexually harass and threaten Linda for years before she finally escapes. She agrees in having an affair with Mr. Sands and together they had two children. She consents to this because she assumed when Dr. Flint found out about her love affair he would sell her to Mr. Sands however this was not the case. Instead, she is sent to his plantation and used for labor.