during their days of slavery. “From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” by Harriet Jacobs, tells her story including the events she passed throughout her lifetime and how cruel her master and mistress treated her. Her family was “allowed to live together even though they had different masters” (Jacobs 920). Her first owner was kind with her, that even Jacobs’s mistress taught her to read, write and sew as well. Jacob stated, “My mistress was so kind to me that I was always glad to do her biding.” (Jacobs 923). When Jacob was twelve years old her mistress died and she was so devastated, because she loved her mistress just like a mother, “I loved her; for she had been almost like a mother to me” (Jacobs 923). She then was passed to her new
