Harriet Ann Jacobs Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl

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Ashleigh Murphy
10/5/16
English
Ms. Abriani
Harriet Ann Jacobs The love you feel as a mother, a father, or just for a special person in your life isn’t a bond you have with everyone. It’s hard enough as it is being a parent; imagine the difficulties faced by Harriet Ann Jacobs. A young woman, born into slavery, whose parents both passed at young ages. She got pregnant young, from an affair with a white lawyer who from this, she bared two beautiful children, Joseph and Luisa Matilda (Harriet Ann, 1). Although the story doesn’t stop there, Norcom who owned Harriet, was a very threatening person and because of the racial differences, he had the power to decide what would happen to her two children as well as Harriet herself.
From all of this, Harriet wrote a narrative about her experiences, adventures, along with the trials and tribulations she endured. Her narrative: Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl, shows the readers how the love for someone, or in this case her few children, is such a strong connection to have. The theme for this story is that …show more content…

“MY children grew finely; and Dr. Flint would often say to me, with an exulting smile, "These brats will bring me a handsome sum of money one of these days.” (Continued Persecutions, XV). Her goal in protecting the children was to find a spot that she could safely hide in long enough so that Dr. Norcom would have no other choice but to get rid of her kids. For 7 years, Harriet successfully sat up in a small crawl space in the house of her grandmother, watching over her little ones. If something were to have gone wrong, or have the slightest idea of her whereabouts though, her children’s lives would’ve been ended in anger she cause upon her master. Although her story ended nothing like that. After those 7 years of hiding, she was able to escape to New York and with time reconnected with her children (Summary,

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