— Anonymous At the beginning of the novel “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” the author Harriet Jacobs points out that Northerners have no knowledge of the slavery. Northerners think slavery as a ceaseless bondage with the Southerners. They have no ideas of the word slavery that entails with ceaseless humiliation. Linda Brent […]
cruelty
When we were beginning to read Incidents…
—Sanjna Puri When we were beginning to read Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, I had absolutely no idea what it was about. I knew it had something to do with slavery but I didn’t know that it would be from the perspective of a slave. I thought it would […]
introspective view of the cruelty and harsh lifestyle a female woman of color
—Mazidul Ahmed Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl provides the most introspective view of the cruelty and harsh lifestyle a female woman of color had to endure because of the slavery system in the United States. This autobiography can be easily classified as a “great work” because of its significance and […]
