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A 6 page research paper/essay that discusses Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, which is a brutally honest autobiography of a woman who was born into slavery. The writer discusses how Jacobs addresses the ramifications that slavery had on women, particularly those of a sexual nature. This topic is related to why the book was difficult to publish and failed to find a readership among the Northern abolitionist public. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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on Jacobs from a distinctly female point of view. Due to this perspective, Jacobs narrative is largely regarded as a work of early feminism. Jacobs stated intention in writing this
text was "to arouse the women of the North to a realizing sense of the condition of two millions of women at the South, still in bondage" (Jacobs 7).
Nevertheless, while Jacobs intention in publishing her description of the sexual subjugation of black slave girls and women was not to be salacious, this content was viewed as radical at
the time and she had tremendous difficulty in getting her book published. Additionally, while the Northern public was prepared to read about the cruelties of slavery, the public was not
prepared to face the whole truth about slavery, including the role played by the Christian church in propagating this institution (Women in History). It shocked the American public, as Jacobs
suspected that it would, which is why she published under a pseudonym (Linda Brent), and also changed all of the names in her account. This examination of Jacobs text looks
at specifically why Jacobs stirring narrative failed to reach the reading public of her era and traces these reasons to specific sociological characteristics of that time. For example, in
order to fully understand the structure of Jacobs narrative, it is first necessary to see it within the cultural framework provided by the "cult of true womanhood" (Drake 92). This
was the nineteenth century gender paradigm that defined femininity according to standards of virginity (prior to marriage), frigidity (within marriage), in which a woman was completely dependent on either her
father or her husband. A slave woman, while she was fully dependent on her master, was "forced to work like man and to breed like an animal" (Drake 92). Consequently,
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