Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl By Harriet Jacobs

In the book Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl written by Harriet Jacobs, we are introduced to Linda Brent, a girl who was born as a slave in North Carolina. Many years passed in the book and as Linda got older like many slaves she was being taken advantage by her mistress. Linda especially suffered when she was in her teenage years because her mistress was wanting to have sexual relations with her. Later in the book, Linda had two kids and like every mother she tried to protect them, but she couldn’t because her kids were also slaves. Linda’s goal was to escape from her mistress and go North to finally be free. Linda faces a lot of circumstances when traveling North she had to leave her kids behind with her grandmother and has to hide from …show more content…
For example, when I was reading the book I was surprised when Linda had gave birth and she said that she wished that her baby was dead. When I first read that I was shocked because I never imagined that she would want that however, later throughout the book I realized why she said that. She said that because she went through so many things and she didn’t want her son to go through the same thing as her. I overall really liked how the story was written and how it ended. I especially liked how at the end of the book Linda was finally successful. Everything she went through was definitely worth it because in the end she was free from slavery and she was happy because of that accomplishment. I personally really enjoyed this book. I really liked this book because it was very interesting to read and it just got me thinking and feeling bad for people who went through similar things that Linda experienced. One thing that made it a bit challenging to follow along with the book was the way it was written. It was written in the way that Linda would talk, a person who wasn’t very educated which did make it a little hard to follow along