State Of Virginia And Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl

American Slavery
From the Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia and Jacob’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, we can learn something about slavery at the same period. However, Jefferson’s perspective about the condition and the future of the slavery contrasted Jacob’s discussion of the cruel experience that a slavery girl suffered under her owner. According to Jefferson, though black people was inferior to white people, slave owners well treated their slaves, some even educated them. Nevertheless, from the slave girl’s perspective, things were totally different. Masters to them were monsters. They punished and tortured their slavers; they sexually abused them and threatened them. Moreover, Jealous and enraged

It is obvious in everywhere of the Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl that the white master Dr.flint’s tortured his slave girl Linda. This narrative shows the cruel and horrible life Linda lived under the slavery owner. The slaves in America were inferiors among equals, slaves were not allowed to live the life they wanted. They were the property of the owners. Just as mentioned in the book:
“ He told me I was his property; that I must be subject to his will in all things…my master met me at every turn, reminding me that I belonged to him, and swearing by heaven and earth that he would compel me to submit him “ (jacobs).
In this kind of master-slave relationship, rape was unavoidable. Linda suffered a lot from this. She felt shamed, guilty and fearful, but she couldn't do anything to resist the sexual abuse of the master. She was not the only poor girl, because she knew that Dr. Flint was the father of eleven slaves, which means that he raped over eleven slaves. Additionally, the mistress too was forced to sit in a corner submissively as their husbands broke their vows. They had no choice but to put their angry to the slaves due to the jealous. Hence, the slaves of America were tortured both physically and mentally by white men and white

According to Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson insisted that blacks were less beautiful and inferior in general to whites not only in beauty but also in reason, and this is why that blacks became slaves but not white. Although blacks were born to be slaves, their masters treated them well. “Yet many have been situated, that they have been associated with the whites, some have been liberally educated, and all have lived in countries where the arts and science are cultivated to a considerable degree. ”(Jefferson 120). This was different from the slaves’ discussions of their cruel lives. Jefferson also propounded in the Notes a plan to deport and emancipate the slaves to another place, which could provide them a free and independent life. Nonetheless, Jefferson contributed his whole life to implement this plan, but he