Harriet Jacobs Autobiography

It wasn't hard for me to sympathize with Harriet Jacobs while reading her autobiography because of the stories my grandmother told me about her mother during this time period. My great grandmother was a slave in Georgia during antebellum period and had very similar stories. Her slave owner was Edward Archelaus Flewellen he was a medical director for the confederate army. Having connections to someone that went through the same thing as Harriet Jacobs just made her stories hit me more in the heart. I had already knew women were taking advantage of and was destroyed morally and emotionally during this time. I just know now that it was more women with my great grandmother that also went through this disgusting and horrible period of