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This 3 page paper discusses what life was like for Harriet Jacobs as a slave in the south. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Jacobs autobiography is what is called a "slave narrative." This particular form of literature was created by slaves who escaped and wrote about their lives in bondage. They are horrific,
first-hand accounts of what life was like for slaves in the South, and should dispel any ridiculous romantic ideas that slavery was anything but brutal, degrading and inhumane. Harriet
begins her story by saying that she doubts anyone will believe her, but "I have not exaggerated the wrongs inflicted by Slavery; on the contrary, my descriptions fall far short
of the facts" (Jacobs, 1861). The editor of the narrative, L. Maria Child, says that she knows many readers will castigate her for putting such subject matter in the public
domain, but she thinks slavery is a monstrous evil that needs to be exposed for what it is (Child, 1861). "I do this for the sake of my sisters in
bondage, who are suffering wrongs so foul, that our ears are too delicate to listen to them" (Child, 1861). Child hopes by editing and publishing the work to rouse the
North "to a sense of their duty in the exertion of moral influence on the question of Slavery, on all possible occasions" (Child, 1861). The influence of the Flints: Dr.
Flint and his wife were Harriets master and mistress, and they deserve the name Flint for they were as hard as granite. Jacobs was born a slave but didnt realize
her situation for a number of years; she joined the Flint household when she was 12 (Jacobs). Dr. Flint was coarse and unpleasant but his wife was even worse. "If
dinner was not served at the exact time on that particular Sunday, she would station herself in the kitchen, and wait till it was dished, and then spit in all
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