Sexual Exploitation: In Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl

Sexual Exploitation: In Incidents in the Life of a Slave girl Many times we have heard stories of slaves who have been tortured. Slave men and women lynched, limbs cut off from escaping from plantation owners, and obscure punishments for no reason are some stories that have been told. What has hardly been told is the raping of girls and women during slavery. Harriet Jacobs is one out of many women who have been sexually explicated during her time in slavery. Jacob’s Book, “Incidents in the life of a slave girl” brings to light the untellable events women had to endure while enslaved. Rape is the unwanted sexual assault against a person without one’s consent. It is also the abuse of authority which plantations owners rightly fully took advantage of slave women. There are elements as to why the concept of rape did not count for the protection of black slaves. It is difficult to understand why plantation owners sexual would exploit slave woman. One simple reason is because they have the right to do so for their woman slaves are property. Plantation owners pay great deal of money for each slave just like paying for a

If only Harriet was able to express her deep thoughts to her grandmother, she would realize that her grandmother would have a common story to hers. Harriet always looked up to her grandmother as holy or women who would be at rage if she knew her dark secret. Harriet may have viewed herself as a sinner for behaviors that she did not have any control over. She like many slave women did not want the sexual attention from their owners. They also did not give their owners any consent to be touched or to receive a child that would continue in their own abusive journey. The mistress never protected Harriet, the law did not, and black women slaves were looked at as sexual objects that plantation owners believed desired sexual attention. Slave or not, no women wishes to be treated in such