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Essay Galaxy - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs appalling autobiographical narrative of her experience of slavery, is a story very much interwoven with the cult of true womanhood. Jacobs hardly embodied the ideal picture of true womanhood painted by white, middle-class Northeastern Americans: delicate, white, submissive, pious and pure. However, she was in a sense a darker-skinned, trial-tried reflection of that True Woman. In her account, an understanding seeps through the pages that true womanhood was a concept in need of expansion, or perhaps negation. The Northern view of true womanhood required resources that Northern, white womens trampled counterparts did not have. Jacobs book acts as a desperate appeal to the very hearts of women to understand that when slavery exists, true womanhood cannot.
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