ENGL1009 Study Guide - Harriet Ann Jacobs
8 Nov 2014
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Incidents in the life of a slave girl. In the tenth chapter in the incidents in the life of a slave girl, harriet jacobs maintains that the black slave girl must be judged more leniently. Jacobs claims that slavery forced her to bear the conditions she suffered. Jacobs argues the point, because if she did not clarify her motives in becoming impregnated, readers would have to make their own assumptions. She argues this by comparing the situation of a free white women and a black slave girl. First, jacobs must establish the contrast between the white women and the black women. By chapter 10 the northern women reading the book have become sympathetic to jacobs with instances such as the cruel mrs. flint mistreating jacobs. Jacobs begins by saying that the happy women are those who live unrestricted by slavery. This asserts that the audience is living the life that jacobs could never dream of.
