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Harriet Jacobs Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl

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Leslie Mendoza
Professor Moreland
September 22, 2014
ENGL 2327
Harriet Jacobs Equality is making sure that every individual is treated the same, and by that I mean the same. An individual should not be treated worse than another individual. They should respect their race, their gender, religion, sexual preferences, and also their needs.
This is what Harriet Jacobs was searching for. Jacobs wanted to be free. She wanted to marry the man of her dreams, the person she loved, and she also wanted respect. She lets us all know this by her writings in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in Edenton, North Carolina and was also the first known African American women to publish a biography about slavery in the …show more content…

Jacobs’s arguments about slavery are seen when she runs away from Dr. Norcom’s plantation. Without saying any words she ran away from the plantation. She also argues that slavery was way too harsh on women compared to the harshness on the men. She argues this because of every episode that she saw and of course every horrible episode that she lived …show more content…

One of this experiences was being neglected by her master and not being able to defend herself physically from her master, since she was a young woman that was way less strong than her master. Also, if a slave women were to be pregnant her little boy or little girl would follow her footsteps into becoming a slave, since the children follow the condition of the mother.
Harriet Jacobs’s tone on her work was forthright. By this I mean that she was direct in other words that she was frank and that she did not hesitate when she shared all of the tragedies that she went through. Jacob’s tone can also be described as reflective, and by this I mean that she illustrated all of her inner thoughts or her personal thoughts and mainly all of her personal emotions.
Jacob’s constructed her argument by sharing her life tragedies in order for us to understand what she had been through or at least so that we the readers could get an idea on how bad she had it. The way she constructed her argument was very simple and very easy to understand. She also made sure to include the way she really felt at the time, which was great to

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