Incidents in the life a teenage slave girl

Harriet Jacobs made this story to show how daily life was growing up for a female slave. She does this by telling a story of unnamed slave girl, which is most common during those times for secrecy. It tells how they have to be independent because family bonds don’t always surely help you to survive. The ways of the unrighteous master and his nerved wife towards their servants. This vision to show how treatment and integrity was self-build into slaves as children.

“Parents were light brown...termed mulattos (Childhood)”. This quote shows that all shades of blacks got the same treatment. It didn’t matter complexion for they all were treated equally. “In time to purchase some of her children (Childhood)”. This reveals how most black slaves endured after their family getting sold separate. This shows how family ties were broken, but seeks to be re mended.

“My mother’s mistress was the daughter of my grandmother’s mistress…she was the foster sister of my mother..both nourished at my grandmother’s breast(Childhood P.2)”.This quote reveals the bonds between the slave children and the mistress’s. All rose from under the same roof they grow found of each other, so young unknowingly that there’s a difference between each other. The slaves broke through the barrier of seeing the truth and that there was no common field between whites and blacks. It was foundation of slavery in during this period.
“Who knows the ways of God? (The New Master and Mistress)”. The quote reveals that many slaves resented God for losses. Also, they doubt God’s purpose for taking away loved ones. It brought more slaves toward the white man’s religion Christian and religion.

Promises of freedom from master mostly weren’t kept as a slave. This was the turning point for slaves of setting their own beliefs and standards. They had to embrace the fact that slavery might be for a lifetime. They provided for themselves thought for themselves and took nobody’s word.