Linda D Jacobs Book Summary

Doctor of philosophy Diane Wysocki also felt, Jacobs was very worried about telling her story because she did not want the people she was working for to know she was writing. Jacobs knew that if they found out she was writing about them that she would be killed and her work would not see the light of day. So, writing secretly and at night, Jacobs completed Incidents where she was both candid and emotional about the sexual abuse, harassment, and total control of slave women by their masters. So when she decided to publish the book in 1861 she used a fictional name which was Linda Brent so the name wouldn’t trace back to her. Contemporary feminist researchers can use narrative work "to develop feminist theory, express affinity and admiration for other women, contribute to social justice, facilitate understanding among social classes, and explore the meaning of events in the eyes of women”.
Feminist felt what Jacobs went through while being a slave and how damaging it was to not be able to talk to someone about her life.
The book showed how culturally wrong slave masters was to women slaves and how they scared to do anything about it or tell. The slave narrative intersects with traditional autobiography, the "sentimental novel and the novel of seduction, and the urban gothic novel" (348). The book did its purpose by describing the trials and tribulations of being an african american woman slavery. To the gory descriptions of physical cruelty on the bodies of slaves, Jacobs adds her discourse on the sexual violation of enslaved women, and the intervention of white abolitionists in the production and dissemination of slave narratives. Jacobs was one of the first books to address the struggle female slaves struggle it put others moral beliefs on the line when it was
published.