Harriet Jacobs: The Slave Girl

Captain Anthony from an infant. She was sorted among the rest, she was too old to work on field or too weak for anything else was put up in a hut away from everyone unable to fetch water or hunt for herself she died shortly after. Learning how to read over the many years in Baltimore and treated less harsh than other slaves he was hired out to another farm since the slave new master Thomas thought Fredrick was ruined from the city life. He was hired by a man who was poor and could only own one slave. He was notoriously well known to break slaves. Known as the “snake” Edward Convey. Mr. Covey beaten Fredrick the first time when he was sick and felled over. Fredrick from head to toe bloody whipped one eye shut and swelled walked bare footed …show more content…
The autobiography from Harriet Jacobs was about a female born into the slavery in the 1800’s in Edenton, NC. The slave girl was given to Dr. Flint’s family before her fifteenth year. That was the beginning of a very sad period in her life. Harriet’s master Dr. Flint, an older white man in his 50’s, had his family children living with Harriet as well. Dr. Flint also had a wife that the young slave was responsible to serve but she was jealous of the young girl’s beauty. Her beauty was a curse as it would make her master desire her in very unfortunate ways. Because of this unwanted desire from the master, she could not confine in the master’s wife for security or protection which made her feel even more alone in this …show more content…
Her loving grandmother then became the watchful eye and caregiver to Harriet as well as her protector. Harriet’s grandmother had major influences in her lifetime. The young 15 year old slave wanted to tell her grandmother about the guilty practices and sad foreboding that the master was commanding of the girl but she knew too well what her grandmother would do. She feared as well as loved her grandmother who she was accustomed to look up to with admiration bordering upon astonishment. Her grandmother was of a high spirt and strong dignity. If her righteous anger was aroused she was not a quiet person. Her grandmother once chased a white man with a loaded pistol because he insulted one of her daughters. These are some of the reasons why the slave girl would keep silent out of respect and fear for her grandmother. Another reason was Dr. Flint swore he would kill her if she ever told anyone about his