Incidents_In_The_Life_Of_A_Slave_Girl

Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl Harriet Jacobs’ memoir, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, shows us the life of a female slave and the abuse she suffered at the hands of her master. This was very different than the abuse we have witnessed from the other slaves we’ve read about. This book was very moving, because it was the real life account of a woman who was sexually abused. It was revolting to read as well, because she made herself believe that the abuse she was suffering was OK, because that was how she served her master. Jacobs uses rhetoric very well to make the reader sickened and saddened at the same time. Jacobs uses rhetoric to gain sympathy for abused, enslaved females in the south by giving accounts of her life in slavery to northern white women. Other authors of books in this time who were slaves women, rhetoric, life, abuse, very, slavery, read, master, made, because, woman, white, time, sure, slaves, slave, northern, men, herself, book, believe, abused, about, witnessed, we’ve, way, wars, wanted, upsetting, understand, think, target, system, sympathy, suffering