Harriett Jacobs Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl

Harriett Jacobs is a woman who lived in the nineteenth century. She wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl based upon her own life. The character that was representing her in the novel was Linda Brent. She was a woman who was well educated and lived as a young child comfortably, in consideration for her being a slave, but then her life took an unexpected turn when her kind mistress died and no one to protect her from the harsh crimes of the world she was about to endeavor. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl uses many classic elements of sentimental novels throughout Jacobs’s autobiography but she did not stay within the boundaries of a pure sentimental novel by opening up and telling the readers about her life in pure honesty.
Linda Brent is a slave. She is a slave who was bought as a child. She is a slave who has lost many loved ones. She is a slave who knows about all the

She was able to talk to the readers in a way that was able to evoke emotion. She wanted them to care. She wanted tears to be shed and anger to be boiling out of the skin. Near the end of the book, Jacob says, “reader, my story ends with freedom; not in the usual way, with marriage. I and my children are now free! We are as free from the power of slave holders as are the white people of the north; and though that, according to my ideas, is not saying a great deal, it is a vast improvement in my condition.” She is examining her life as a whole. She is telling the reader how her life turned out after a series of events that were not very fortunate took place throughout her entire life. She ended the book in a way that she was not found to be extremely happy but she is in a place of content. She wants to leave the reader feeling like even though her and her family are now free there is still some room for change. Life is still not anywhere near being close to