Summary Of Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl By Harriet Ann Jacobs

All human beings are entitled to a universal set of human rights globally regardless of their nationality, religion, language, location and ethnic origin. These rights include and are not limited to freedom of expression, freedom of movement, right to own property, right to life among others. In the book ‘Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl’ Harriet Ann Jacobs talks of her slavery encounter, sexual harassment and degradation in the society. This paper will focus on Harriet’s slavery experiences in the hands of the Whites which many artists find hard to narrate their personal humiliating experiences.
She explains how women were sexually abused on the plantations and their efforts to protect their children. Child trafficking was also a major threat to their children. Through the book, she was dedicating the message to White women to evaluate the effects of slavery to the slave ladies. She escaped to New York City and lived and worked at Idlewild home to Nathaniel Parker, a publisher and writer. As a result of slavery female slaves would not have access to Christian education, they were used as sex objects and were brutally alienated from their families. Linda underwent all these suffering under Dr. Flint
Flints daughter. To secure herself from the doctor she got into a relationship with a nearby plantation owner, Mr. Sands. Though she was ashamed of her relationship with Mr. Sands she prefers it to giving in to the doctor’s sexual demands. She is impregnated and bears two children Benny and Ellen. Dr. Flint plans to make her children slaves and in a bid to protect her children she goes into hiding at her grandmother’s house living in a cabin. Mr. Sand via a slave trader buys his children and sends them to Aunt Martha, Linda’s grandmother. She later learns that Mr. Sand remarried and took Ellen to take care of his mistresses’ daughter. (Davis, Charles & Henry