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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a narrative that describes a young woman’s trials and tribulations while being an involuntary member of the institution known as slavery. ... Her story starts as a child, when her life was relatively sheltered. ... From this point on, she had a continuous struggle to live a dignified and virtuous life, despite being a slave. ... The slaveholders, for example, put themselves into a situation by slavery’s strong power where they are entirely in control of the life of another human. ... They may come to believe that the only purpose of these slave’s lives are to serve them in any and every way. In Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Dr. ... The young slave girl suffered through having “a man forty years [her] senior daily violating the most sacred commandments of nature. ... Wives constantly wonder and worry that their husbands are performing unjust sexual acts on the slave women. The wife’s reaction is rage directed towards the un-wanting party, the slave. ... The fact this sinful treatment of other human beings was permitted had a morally crippling effect, not only on the principle victim, the slave, but also on the entire household in which the slave resided. ... He continually degraded and insulted her throughout her life in his household. For example, Jacobs recalls “when he told me that I was made for his use, made to obey his command in every thing; that I was nothing but a slave, whose will must and should surrender to [his], never before had my puny arm felt half so strong”(15).
Approximate Word count = 1117
Approximate Pages = 4.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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