Slavery By Harriet Jacobs And Linda Brent: Book Analysis

Slavery was a prominent issue in the south ever since the year 1619 in Jamestown, Virginia. In this autobiography, by Harriet Jacobs and Linda Brent we get an in-depth perspective of what life was like to be a female slave during the 1850’s. This autobiography was published in 1861, which also happened to be the year the civil war began. Harriet Jacobs gives herself the pseudonym Linda Brent throughout the book and tells her story being a slave and how she eventually became free. I will describe how Harriet Jacobs preserved throughout slavery’s harsh restrictions, leading to her freedom. To begin, Harriet Jacobs says she’s writing this book to show the painful hardships she endured, so that when published she could possibly support the whole anti-slavery movement. It was no surprise to me that Jacobs could write in such great description account of her experiences because she was so passionate to obtaining freedom and exposing the great suffering that she and other slaves endure. During the first …show more content…
This is a pivotal moment how she copes with her bondage for the sake of her children. Also, this situation this is how she’s fighting back, Brent would be in this small attic and “suffered for air even more than for light” (Chapter 21), but it was all worth it to “hear the voices of [her] children” (Chapter 21). Her fight for slavery was through sacrifice and her independent nature. Linda Brent was even clever enough to grant her children with freedom in the North when they’re sold away to someone else that happened to be a representative of Mr. Sands. Ultimately, her actions made it possible for the families’ survival and ability to escape the south and meet up in Boston. As this escape is in progress, Dr. Flint is on the lookout for Jacobs so she can remain to be his