Feminism in Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Please imagine yourself as a woman slave who lived a fulfilling life with large farms in the early 19th century. Please wake up at dawn every morning and imagine cooking, cleaning, washing and sewing for a day that will not end. Please imagine that you are not only using you to do everyday chores, but also a call by a master who requests personal sexual pleasure. Imagine his deep emotions that he can not resist his endless fear of next humiliating demands and his shame and regret. Imagine lying on the bed at the end of the day, God took you to heaven and hope that you do not need to wake up again and experience this hell again.

Harriet Anne Jacobs, born as a slave in Edenton, North Carolina, is the daughter of slave daughters Delila and Daniel Jacobs Harriet Jacobs. The most famous was edited by the white abolitionist Lydia Maria Child in her autobiography "The life event of a slave girl" and was published in 1852. Story After her mistress passed away, "Dr. Flint", in her young life she was considered a young girl, she met Flint 's constant sexual assault in 1835. Lint's family is still nearby and lived in the attic for several years to stay near his son, but he flew in 1842 and was able to meet with children and live in Rochester, New York There was. CyberNetwork Jacobs wrote autobiography with the help of the white abolitionist Amy Post, but he was still chased by slave catcher and fled to Massachusetts.

Publication of Jacob's Kana Famous Slave Tale "Slave Girl's Lifetime Event" (ed. L. Maria · Child, ed., 1861), and an escaped slave Harriet Jacobs as a descendant of the African descent, American activist and writer. Her books were written by myself in England the following year as "a deeper mistake: or a lifetime event of a slave girl" (L. 628, edited in 1862). It may be the only slave story of sexual oppression and oppression of race and state, it was unique in American autobiography of the 19th century. This is the first person of women's struggle with sex and slaves to suppress mothers. Its public purpose was to involve American women in the fight against slavery and racial discrimination and Jacob released it with the help of her editor, the female letter Lydia Maria Child's abolition I came across a big difficulty later.