ENGL 281 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Harriet Ann Jacobs, Unreliable Narrator, Patrilineality
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By lc at unm ages 5-8: preface by the author: I willingly take the responsibility of presenting them with the veil withdrawn. 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. I do it with the hope of arousing conscientious and reflecting women at the north to a sense of their duty in the exertion of moral influence on the question of slavery, on all possible occasions. Step 1: birth/childhood: contains great mention of her father, free black carpenter that wanted to buy off his children. Sees mothers grieve for their dead children: willy comes to believe that they will never be free, witnesses slaves being whipped for the least bit of instatisfaction if dr. and mrs. Flint"s food, or any other complaint they might have.
