Slave Girl Incidents

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Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl; A Documented and Rare Firsthand Account

Race was one of the single most important factors that decided a person’s fate during the Civil War era. Religion was twisted in how it was interpreted by slave owners, in their inhumane ways of dealing and treating black slaves. Gender was a tool used to oppress female slaves, especially those that were cursed with beauty. All oppressing components previously mentioned, Harriot Jacobs, a resilient slave woman refused to be looked upon and treated as an object or a piece of property that could be trampled on and abused. Jacobs first hand eye witness narrative takes the reader into her life as a young black female slave in the south before the Civil War began. Harriet survived in a world where a young black slave girl could endure sexual harassment, slander, physical abuse, and emotional suffering from that of her slave master; Dr. Flint is the main source. Female slaves were often treated much worse than that of male slaves. Gender was used as a tool of oppression among black women during this period. Not only did a Harriot have to take on the abuse of her white slave master, she also would have to take on the abuse from his much younger mistress, Mrs. Flint. Mrs. Flint was outraged with jealousy …show more content…

Religion and the Bible were interpreted differently from what was right and wrong and what was good and evil. Most white masters who had the power over slaves viewed the Bible in reference to justify the evil and wrong doings that they would commit such as adultery and rape among female slaves. They (slave masters) would remind their slaves that there were no crimes or sins that could be committed amongst slaves because in the eyes of the law, slaves were property and white slave master could do as they pleased with their property. Reading Jacobs’s narrative, whites viewed slaves as a species less then

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