In The Life of a Female Slave, Jacobs depicts her life as it was under the household of Mr. Flint. Jacobs depicts that the beginning of her life under Mr. Flint rule was pleasant until she became the age of 15. After Jacobs came to age Mr. Flint sought after her for sexual reasons and tried different approaches of seduction, gentle and …show more content…
Post encouraged Jacobs to write her autobiography because Post believed that Jacobs’ story was necessary to share the horrors of enslavement. In addition, it is clear that Jacobs is writing are directed for free people who lived in the North this is evident in this passage: “Pity me, and pardon me, O virtuous reader! You never know what it is to be a slave; to be entirely unprotected by law or custom; to have the laws reduce you to the condition of a chattel, entirely subject to the will of another….” (Jacobs