Harriet Jacobs And Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl
1. Introduction
I have chosen this subject because of my personal interest in American female literature. Having read Anne Bradstreet gave me great pleasure, because I got an inside view of not just the big conquerer, but the woman whose is standing quietly at his side. Now I wanted to approach to another, very deep subject in American history. Writing about such an outstanding woman, fighting for her right as a human being, a woman, a mother, makes me feel pride – not as a white person, but as a woman.
1.1. The Author Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks. It makes white …show more content…
Sands, wherefore she became the mother of two children – over to the escape from her master. This escape is scaled in different stages, leading her from an attic of a good female slaveholder to the seven-years imprisonment in the den of her grandmother’s house and to the tiny room on the boat who took her to Philadelphia as “[...] a progression from one small space to another.”[4] She managed to escape into the North and build an own existence.
1.2. Questioning and Further Approach
Harriet always pointed out the importance of being a woman in her narrative. After Linda had the affair with Mr. Sands, she described herself as nothing more, than, as Robert S. Levine has written, “[...] a fallen woman.”[5]. This term induced me for further research where I found out about the ideology of true womanhood, which I am now going to discuss in detail and how it was realized. Furthermore do I intend to discuss and resolve the question of Linda’s self-evaluation.
2. The Southern Ideology of True
I have chosen this subject because of my personal interest in American female literature. Having read Anne Bradstreet gave me great pleasure, because I got an inside view of not just the big conquerer, but the woman whose is standing quietly at his side. Now I wanted to approach to another, very deep subject in American history. Writing about such an outstanding woman, fighting for her right as a human being, a woman, a mother, makes me feel pride – not as a white person, but as a woman.
1.1. The Author Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks. It makes white …show more content…
Sands, wherefore she became the mother of two children – over to the escape from her master. This escape is scaled in different stages, leading her from an attic of a good female slaveholder to the seven-years imprisonment in the den of her grandmother’s house and to the tiny room on the boat who took her to Philadelphia as “[...] a progression from one small space to another.”[4] She managed to escape into the North and build an own existence.
1.2. Questioning and Further Approach
Harriet always pointed out the importance of being a woman in her narrative. After Linda had the affair with Mr. Sands, she described herself as nothing more, than, as Robert S. Levine has written, “[...] a fallen woman.”[5]. This term induced me for further research where I found out about the ideology of true womanhood, which I am now going to discuss in detail and how it was realized. Furthermore do I intend to discuss and resolve the question of Linda’s self-evaluation.
2. The Southern Ideology of True