Harriet Jacobs Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl

The Romantics were inspiring people who brought about ideas that were maybe idealized but never brought about before them due to the Puritan ideals getting in the way. We as the readers see imagination, intuition, idealism, inspiration, and individuality from the authors of the Romantic period. The story, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself by Harriet Jacobs displays a major innovation that occurred during the Romantic period. Women according to the Puritans were inferior to man and never had much of a say. Through Harriet Jacobs writing she made herself equal to man. She told the world exactly what happened to her and didn't look back. She expressed to women all over the world that if you want something, you have to
She opened the door for not just me but all the women today. We are able to do the things we love today because of romantic writers such as Jacobs. She told the harsh story of her life to help her fellow women so maybe someone would realize how they were being wronged, so someone could help her turn that all around. “I do earnestly desire to arouse the women of the North to a realizing sense of the condition of two millions of women at the South, still in bndage, suffering what I suffered, and most of them far worse” (Cain 846). Additionally, Jacob’s writing has affected my life in the way that she practically says that to get what you want in life you have to fight for it. Everyone has it tough, and we may get down in a ditch but to succeed you must continue on. In Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself Jacobs stayed in a trap door for a very long time just to reach the free states. “My condition was now a little improved. But for weeks I was tormented by hundreds of little red insects” (Cain 875). She had the roughest of times but she went on and ended up being successful. I think that's a lesson many people need to learn today rather than having things handed to them day after