Resisting Incidents

Jacobs wanted to take her daughter Louisa across seas to England as she got invited there. Harriet Beecher and Mrs. Willis did not want Louisa to go with Jacobs as it would have been too much for Jacobs to take care of. Since Louisa was still a slave girl Beecher and Mrs. Willis thought, “it would subject her to much petting and patronizing, which would be more pleasing to a young girl than useful” (Yellin, 483). After this episode, instead of having Beecher write her book, Jacobs decided to write it herself. Phillips and Sampson wanted to endorse Jacobs’ manuscript if she got Stowe or Willis to write a preface for it. Jacobs denied that offer and waited till the fall and she sent it to Thayer and Eldridge of Boston and they made her a new offer of having Mrs. Child write a preface. Upon thinking about having someone help her write her manuscript, Jacobs realizes what it would mean to her knowing that she wrote it all by herself. Once she knew she was going to write it herself, Jacobs started sending some of her letters to the newspapers. Since she was a slave though she …show more content…
“Lancer uses gender as her primary focus. Any attempt by an individual who is not white, male, and at least middle class will be known as inevitably challenged” (Foster). Foster applauded Jacobs for writing the book the way she wanted it to be written. “Techniques from her multiple cultures, and a transcultural text that begged, borrowed, stole and devised the techniques that would allow her freedom to tell her story the way she wanted it to be told” (Foster). In Incidents, Jacobs writes how she wants to move to the north, but does not want to leave any of her family behind. Foster sees the motherly figure in that, whereas if most slaves had a shot at moving to the north, even at the cost of leaving their other family members behind, they would move and change their whole