Written under the pseudo name Linda Brent, Incidents in the Life of a slave Girl is a narrative of her own life by Harriet Jacobs. Through her story, Jacobs takes us back in time to reflect the heart-breaking situation of being a slave and women in a slave holding society of 18th century America. Her book is an outcry to all her readers who are distant from the evils of an institutionalized system that legally and coercively that controls the life the millions of helpless African American under the slavery. Furthermore, she also tries to justify the desperate attempts made by herself and other slaves to achieve their god given rights of freedom and human dignity under a social arrangement that treats a person of color as masters’ property along
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With a heavy heart, Harriet now moves to the Flint family home to serve her new mistress of five. The new owner, Dr. Flint and Mrs. Flint were typical southern slave holder who never provided the sufficient provisions to their slaves. Instead, they controlled their slaves through the extreme regime of overexploitation, brutality and terror. dad dies!!! Despite mistreatment of Mr. and Mrs. Flint, Harriet found peace and comfort through her aunt and grandmother. In her loving grandmother, she found the warmth and solace of her mother. Her grandmother herself had once been a slave to the same family, and the common suffrage flourished the intimate relation between Harriet and her grandmother. Their relation was more of friendship, after all, both have experienced the cruelest aspect of slavery. Like any other slave family, their family too was broken by their masters and each child, their father and mothers were sold to different …show more content…
The search of Nat Turner becomes a massive witch hunt throughout Virginia and Neighboring South Carolina. Out of the fear of larger slave insurrection, whites in Edenton too becomes suspicious of its black population. This results in mass persecution of many blacks under the false accusations. Although, Harriet’s grandmother was a well- respected woman in the society, this doesn’t stop the low whites to raid her house and take any finer objects that they could lay their hands on. In the midst of the chaos and abuses, Harriet finds that she is again pregnant with Mr. Sands child. It makes her even worried about her son’s life, as Dr. Flint was enraged by the news. Although, her second childbirth was more painful than the first one, she becomes more hurt by the fact that have given birth to girl. Fearing the same fate that little girl might incurred, Harriet soon begins to formulate an escape plan in a hope that her family would be able to purchase the deserted slave children. As she shares her thoughts, Harriet instantly faces objections from her old grandmother. However, concerning the safety of the old friend, she soon drops the plan and gets on with her
With a heavy heart, Harriet now moves to the Flint family home to serve her new mistress of five. The new owner, Dr. Flint and Mrs. Flint were typical southern slave holder who never provided the sufficient provisions to their slaves. Instead, they controlled their slaves through the extreme regime of overexploitation, brutality and terror. dad dies!!! Despite mistreatment of Mr. and Mrs. Flint, Harriet found peace and comfort through her aunt and grandmother. In her loving grandmother, she found the warmth and solace of her mother. Her grandmother herself had once been a slave to the same family, and the common suffrage flourished the intimate relation between Harriet and her grandmother. Their relation was more of friendship, after all, both have experienced the cruelest aspect of slavery. Like any other slave family, their family too was broken by their masters and each child, their father and mothers were sold to different …show more content…
The search of Nat Turner becomes a massive witch hunt throughout Virginia and Neighboring South Carolina. Out of the fear of larger slave insurrection, whites in Edenton too becomes suspicious of its black population. This results in mass persecution of many blacks under the false accusations. Although, Harriet’s grandmother was a well- respected woman in the society, this doesn’t stop the low whites to raid her house and take any finer objects that they could lay their hands on. In the midst of the chaos and abuses, Harriet finds that she is again pregnant with Mr. Sands child. It makes her even worried about her son’s life, as Dr. Flint was enraged by the news. Although, her second childbirth was more painful than the first one, she becomes more hurt by the fact that have given birth to girl. Fearing the same fate that little girl might incurred, Harriet soon begins to formulate an escape plan in a hope that her family would be able to purchase the deserted slave children. As she shares her thoughts, Harriet instantly faces objections from her old grandmother. However, concerning the safety of the old friend, she soon drops the plan and gets on with her