AAS 111 Lecture 4: AAS 111 W 2017 Handout JACOBS March 21

• School: U of M
• Department: Afroamerican & African Studies
• Course: AAS 111
• Professor: Sandra Gunning

Document Summary

And now, reader, i come to a period in my unhappy life, which i would gladly forget if i could. The remembrance fills me with sorrow and shame. It pains me to tell you of it; but i have promised to tell you the truth, and i will do it honestly, let it cost me what it may. I will not try to screen myself behind the plea of compulsion from a master; for it was not so. For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood. The influences of slavery had had the same effect on me that they had on other young girls; they had made me prematurely knowing, concerning the evil ways of the world. I know what i did, and i did it with deliberate calculation.