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A 6 page paper which compares and contrasts these narratives from former slaves demanding gender equality. No additional sources are used.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TG15_TGarntslav.rtf
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because they were the greatest victims of their male masters who would sexually assault and impregnate them, and then separate mothers from babies by selling off their children to other
slaveholders. Many of these women would attempt to escape in hopes of purchasing freedom for themselves and for their children. But the oppression of prejudice was felt on
both sides of the Mason-Dixon line, as Sojourner Truth (1793-1883) and Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) would learn from their own dramatic life experiences. These courageous women refused to fade quietly
into the annals of American historys most disgraceful chapter. They shared their unique journeys to liberate themselves with others in hopes of ending discrimination based upon race and gender.
Sojourner Truths "Arnt I a Woman?" and Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl were perhaps the first feminist texts that linked the American slave experience
with the repressive treatment of all women regardless of color. In her long life, Sojourner Truth, whose real name was Isabella Van Wagener, never learned how to read or write.
But she had mastered the art of plain-speak, and that would prove to be more than enough. Instead of putting on pious airs, she would present herself as
she was and play off of the conventional slave stereotype. Then, when the social mainstream wasnt looking, she would launch her attack on racism by mocking its rush to
judgment. Using the pseudonym of Linda Brent, the far more erudite Harriet Jacobs would recount her own humiliating slave experiences as a pointed warning to northern women that such
injustices needed to cease, but wouldnt simply disappear on their own. She described her repeated humiliations at the hands of her master and mistress, Dr. and Mrs. Flint, and
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