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by Harriet Ann Jacobs
About 56 pages (16,883 words)
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Chapter 5, The Trials of Girlhood Summary and Analysis

This is the chapter in which the author first discusses, in some depth, the theme of sexual slavery. Linda recounts how, when she reached the age of fifteen, her master began to make advances toward her—at first by merely whispering obscene comments into her ear and later by threatening her with physical injury.

Linda asserts that masters like Dr. Fling are the rule rather than the exception, and that.....

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