question archive Harriet Jacobs writes, "I have
Harriet Jacobs writes, "I have
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Harriet Jacobs writes, "I have...Striven faithfully to give a true and just account of my own life in slavery...to come to you just as I am a poor slave mother - not to tell what I have heard but what I have seen- and what I have suffered." Is Jacobs' autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl an accurate representation of the antebellum South under a slave system?
Were her experiences different from men who were enslaved?
How does she use family/kinship networks to survive and escape?
How was her experience unique (unusual) when compared to other enslaved peoples?
Is her relationship with her master/mistress typical or atypical to most enslaved peoples' experiences?
