According to Stover, Jacobs is trying to show that she is also a human and has self worth through her writings. Her writings show her “resistance to the oppressions for enslavement”. She uses a sentimental approach in her writing to get the support of Northern white women. She talks about the sexual oppression, separation of families and her flight for freedom. She also shows how much she dislikes “the social, political, cultural, and economic injustices of America as they pertained to the lives of African Americans” (Stover 135).
