Essays on Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

The abolishment movement was the social push to end slavery and racial discrimination. Slave Narratives are firsthand documents and accounts of African Americans who experienced chattel slavery, essentially these accounts played a central role in the abolitionist movement. Throughout the many years of the ‘peculiar...

Harriet Jacobs, an African American slave woman who painstakingly fought to gain her freedom, held reservations against writing and publishing her story. Within the preface she expresses concerns of inadequacy and addresses her audience to ask for understanding regarding the background of her circumstances. Her...

The focus of this week’s readings is of two moving stories of resistance in two vastly different ways to chattel slavery. The pain and suffering that these human beings were subjected to is jarring and the unbelievable trials they put themselves through to change their...