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Slavery: The Consequences Of Jacob's Life

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To live under other directions by destroying own respect and relationships makes life meaningless and hard to build self-confidence. Sex slavery makes Jacob extremely shameful and painful in her entire life. She had to obey her master Dr. Flint command in any circumstances. He ordered to build a quarter for her to live separate and alone than other slave, but she would rather die before she stepped in that quarter. The extreme pain she had in her entire life was when she gets pregnant before marriage; therefore, she had lost her respect in the society and that was the consequences of the slavery. Although she was a slave she was considered as a responsible, intelligence, and virtuous women in the society; however, because of the slavery and

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