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Analysis Of Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl By Harriet A. Jacobs

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Hello, I am Nina, in today’s Ted Talk I am going to talk about “The connection between harassment of slave women and nowadays Chilean girls”. During the course I have learned from the book “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” by Harriet A. Jacobs, how women, especially black slaves, have suffered from violence not just physical but psychological. Harassment from white masters in the 19th century towards theirs slaves was common and it was part of their society. Their white wives knew that as well as black women, they were at the mercy of the white patriarchal system, in which white men had complete control over them. If they confronted their husbands, they would endanger their marriages so then they chose to ignore their husbands’ sexual
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