Life Of A Slave Girl Essay

Since the Declaration of Independence, America was a country with a specific ideal within gender status in society. The problem that its understood today, is that in that period of time, minorities were not being considered for the equality of human rights. Minorities in the 1800s were mostly African Americans and women. On one hand the text “Life of a Slave Girl” by Jacobs, Harriet A, is the perfect example to compare how women throughout that era felt towards the violence, economical and legal intimidation from majority groups. They called themselves white supremacists and adopted the Republican party as their political representation. On the other hand, along the text “Life in the Iron-Mills” by Rebecca Harding Davis in the mid-1800s, she is trying to feminize this male figure. Why? Well, Davis is writing for a very harsh audience which are the white supremacists and in order to prepare the reader for the text
But it is a fact; and to me a sad one, even now; for my body still suffers from the effects of that long imprisonment, to say nothing of my soul.” (Life of a Slave Girl) This characteristic, immediately caught the readers’ attention and just like Davis prepares the reader for what is about to come. Jacobs in this last quote, explains her experience and foreshadows the outcome of it as a non-fiction novel, Jacobs has a more dramatic tone than Davis. However, Davis in her fiction novel, makes more emphasis in the use of imagery to present a detailed picture of her story, both writers use this technique in order to change the American Ideal of the 1800s which was of inequality among gender and