Aydan Pena
Histoy/ Thursday
Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl Essay: What passages or elements of the narrative are the most compelling pieces of evidence that slavery must be ended and why?
In the book Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl, Linda tells a story of her twenty years spent that she spent in slavery with her master Dr. Flint, and the jealous Mistress she had. She speaks of her problems as well as the harm done to other people. She takes you on the inside of slavery problem and shows you the terrible thing slavery really was. She tells you the love she had being an unmarried slave mom. At the age of twenty, she escapes and ends up in very small garret. It was so tiny that she could not even stand up. She lived here with no light, …show more content…
Women naturally are responsible for their children, because the children often follow the mother and often feel guilty for bringing children into that world. As “Linda Brent” says, "I often prayed for death; but now I didn’t want to die, unless my child could die too . . .(Benny) it’s clinging fondness was a mixture of love and pain . . . Sometimes I wished that he (Benny) might die in infancy . . .Death is better than slavery". In the book Linda had indifferent feelings about her children because she loved them a lot. She didn’t want them (her kids) to suffer through slavery as she did so for twenty years and she wishes they would die,even though that is harsh, but she loved her kids and didn’t want to lose them as any mother wouldnt. Linda also speaks of "The Slaves New Year’s Day", this was the time that slaves were sold. Many mothers were torn from their husbands and even their …show more content…
A human being sold in the free city of New York! The bill of sale is on record, and future generations will learn from it that women were articles of traffic in New York, late in the nineteenth century of the Christian religion. It may hereafter prove a useful document to antiquaries, who are seeking to measure the progress of civilization in the United States. I well know the value of that bit of paper; but much as I love freedom, I do not like to look upon it.” ( p. 223) Harriet is of course relieved to be free, though her feelings are super mixed. She tells us in this passage that she is unable to believe that, as a human being, she actually could be bought and sold to other people. This made her very reluctant to let Mrs. Bruce purchase her own freedom from Mr. Dodge. Once it is done, she still talks about how she is unable to accept this reality. She somewhat encourages readers to look to the future. After slavery 's end, this paper she wrote will be a reminder of this terrible system and will no doubt bring about amazement in the people who read it. Her difficult feelings on her own freedom are rather different in that to other many slave narratives. Her story ends in her own freedom. This element of her story help her establish herself as a woman of intelligence and deep
Histoy/ Thursday
Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl Essay: What passages or elements of the narrative are the most compelling pieces of evidence that slavery must be ended and why?
In the book Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl, Linda tells a story of her twenty years spent that she spent in slavery with her master Dr. Flint, and the jealous Mistress she had. She speaks of her problems as well as the harm done to other people. She takes you on the inside of slavery problem and shows you the terrible thing slavery really was. She tells you the love she had being an unmarried slave mom. At the age of twenty, she escapes and ends up in very small garret. It was so tiny that she could not even stand up. She lived here with no light, …show more content…
Women naturally are responsible for their children, because the children often follow the mother and often feel guilty for bringing children into that world. As “Linda Brent” says, "I often prayed for death; but now I didn’t want to die, unless my child could die too . . .(Benny) it’s clinging fondness was a mixture of love and pain . . . Sometimes I wished that he (Benny) might die in infancy . . .Death is better than slavery". In the book Linda had indifferent feelings about her children because she loved them a lot. She didn’t want them (her kids) to suffer through slavery as she did so for twenty years and she wishes they would die,even though that is harsh, but she loved her kids and didn’t want to lose them as any mother wouldnt. Linda also speaks of "The Slaves New Year’s Day", this was the time that slaves were sold. Many mothers were torn from their husbands and even their …show more content…
A human being sold in the free city of New York! The bill of sale is on record, and future generations will learn from it that women were articles of traffic in New York, late in the nineteenth century of the Christian religion. It may hereafter prove a useful document to antiquaries, who are seeking to measure the progress of civilization in the United States. I well know the value of that bit of paper; but much as I love freedom, I do not like to look upon it.” ( p. 223) Harriet is of course relieved to be free, though her feelings are super mixed. She tells us in this passage that she is unable to believe that, as a human being, she actually could be bought and sold to other people. This made her very reluctant to let Mrs. Bruce purchase her own freedom from Mr. Dodge. Once it is done, she still talks about how she is unable to accept this reality. She somewhat encourages readers to look to the future. After slavery 's end, this paper she wrote will be a reminder of this terrible system and will no doubt bring about amazement in the people who read it. Her difficult feelings on her own freedom are rather different in that to other many slave narratives. Her story ends in her own freedom. This element of her story help her establish herself as a woman of intelligence and deep