Harriet Jacobs Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl

Before you begin reading “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” you’ll notice that there are prefaces, notes from the author, and an introduction to the story that most people just look over and ignore. They don’t realize how important these excerpts are to the story line. Harriet Jacobs uses alias’ throughout her story, and she refers to herself as Linda Brent. Her stories are very personal and true. She chose to make her story public in the hopes that it could be beneficial to advancing the Anti-Slavery Movement. Here’s a little background information about Harriet Jacobs a.k.a Linda Brent. Her mother and father were hard working slaves. Linda’s mother passed when Linda was only six years old. After that, she was relocated to a new home.
Flint. Although he wasn’t a very good man, he was a major part of her story and her life. I don’t think that sexual tension is the correct word to use but there was some conflict between the Dr. and Linda. Dr. Flint had a thing for her. This is the origin of this particular incident. There were a few occurrences where Flint would force himself onto Linda and she began to feel that it was too difficult to keep fighting off his sexual advances. He would get very upset and angry when she refused. He also threatened to send her away. She felt as though her life was at risk. Now you can see the predicament she’s involved in. While slaves were being bought and sold to slave owners, they were treated like objects and not like decent human beings. It helps to understand why these slaves did what they had to do in order to survive. This is one incident that needed to be