Occurrence In A Life Of A Slave Girl Analysis

The novel “Incidence in a Life of a Slave Girl” contains many emotions such as pain, desperation and an overall cry for help for slaves. “Incidence in a Life of a Slave Girl” is also a novel that many historians believed its author was an abolitionist named Linda Brent. However many historians were wrong for believing that this particular novel was written by a white abolitionist instead of a slave. Many slaves were able to read and write, although many historians were not aware of their abilities. The reality is that Jean Fagan Yellin discovered that, the real author of the famous novel “Incidence in a Life of a Slave Girl” was an actual slave by the name of Harriet Jacobs. Yellin made it her life’s duty to prove that many slaves were literate and they too documented the many struggles they had to endure.
On one of Yellin’s many interviews about “Incidence in a life of a Slave girl”, she declared that Harriet Jacobs is her hero, because she was able to overcome many obstacles in her lifetime. After analyzing Yellin’s interview one particular part stood out to me, which was when she stated that Harriet managed to cope with her master prevention of marrying the young man of her dreams. I was shocked to her Yellin say that because, Harriet Jacobs had no alternative option than to deal with the fact that she could not …show more content…
Through this novel, she was also able to inform many northerners of the sexual, physical and emotional abuse female slaves endured at the hands of their master. Jacobs also wanted to show non-slaves that slaves are people and they should be treated as humans instead of animals. She wanted to show outsiders that slaves wanted to engage in social customs, among their peers but weren’t allowed. The main reason Harriet Jacobs wrote her novel was for her voice to be heard by anyone who was willing to listen, which is what she was able to accomplish even after her