Analyzes the novel, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs. Compares the expectations of a woman in the woman of the 19th century to a slave woman's position. Explores how gender identity affected slavery.

In Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, the traditional role of motherhood is destroyed by the institution of slavery. Mothers in slave families are powerless to protect their children from harm, yet the maternal instinct prevails. Linda goes to great lengths to protect her children from a devastating future.

This essay explains how Harriet Jacob's uses feminism both in authorship and audience analysis as a means to force her voice to be heard. It discusses the different ways she reaches her specific audience, which is made up of the free white women of the north.

Harriet Jacobs spent most of her life as a slave. As a slave she endured many hardships at the hand of her owner. In Life of a Slave Girl Harriet talks of her life and the odds that she faced. She explains and relives the terrible things that happened to her as a young girl.

Compares ideas of Purity and Social Distinction in the works in Persepolis and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Describes how in each novel, social distinction involved birth status and the balancing of understanding the place of inferiority in their related cultures.

Explains how Harriet Jacobs uses sympathy in "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" to win over her audience and discusses the book's themes. Keywords: slavery, African-Americans

Importance of the slave's family from Harriot Jacobs point of view.

In the mid 1800s Harriet Jacobs wrote the memoir Incidents in the life of a slave girl. She did so with the purpose of informing the women residing in the North about the daily conflicts and struggles faced by the women in the South. In an excerpt from her book titled, The Slaves' New Year's Day, Harriet Jacobs speaks of a process, unfamiliar to my knowledge, through which slaves are sold yearly to new owners.