The purpose of this website is to creative a digital space that will educate readers about the thoughts and feelings of motherhood, womanhood, and virtue in the text of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl gives a first view look into the life of Harriet Jacobs, how she overcame slavery and eventually became a free woman. Throughout the text, Jacobs speaks openly and candidly about the struggles that she, and many other slave women, experience in regards to motherhood and virtue.
Harriet Jacobs allows us to see and attempt to understand the hard decisions that slave women were forced to make in regards to their bodies and personal relationships.
I 've chosen to write about motherhood, womanhood, and virtue in this text because these are three attitudes that are often ignored in the life of slave women. Slave women were viewed as property, meaning they could be taken from their families at any time, if they were allowed to build a family at all. Jacobs is able to articulate the tough decisions that her and many slave women face in regards to their identity as a woman, feelings towards becoming a mother, and the attempt to keep a virtuous attitude, despite being owned by another human being.
Harriet Jacobs allows us to see and attempt to understand the hard decisions that slave women were forced to make in regards to their bodies and personal relationships.
I 've chosen to write about motherhood, womanhood, and virtue in this text because these are three attitudes that are often ignored in the life of slave women. Slave women were viewed as property, meaning they could be taken from their families at any time, if they were allowed to build a family at all. Jacobs is able to articulate the tough decisions that her and many slave women face in regards to their identity as a woman, feelings towards becoming a mother, and the attempt to keep a virtuous attitude, despite being owned by another human being.