'Life of a Slave Girl - A Slave in Name Only'

'The story of Linda brent goose is nothing less(prenominal) of extraordinary steady in the decease nature that knuckle downholding existed in. Through the persecution and often heathen diction of Dr. bouldery, her slave owner, she lived as honorable as a slave was r arly seen doing in her time. This could partially be because of the unusually im pure(a) pigment of her climb and the benefits that came with it. The fact that she was besides well improve in her succession as a slave brings a unique propellent in the slave-master relationship, which takes the leger to a vernal depth of imposition from slave owners that the ref can hear in Harriet Jacobs p eras. As Jacobs likes to signify oftentimes in the book, Linda and her family are far from perfect in their choices passim the book. Are her actions genuinely justified establish on the virtuous principles that she was grown up to believe? Was her blood brother selfish in thinking his appetite for handsomedom was to a greater extent important than the ramifications his family would baffle to endure? in that location is a limit to what slaves were even qualified of accomplishing in this boundary and it is my firm feeling that, although Linda was hopelessly arrange by the foul laws of Slavery she endured, she became much(prenominal) stronger through the tribulations brought upon her.\nIn the beginning, Jacobs introduces us to the brent family. Lindas family is al run downy exceptional(a) through their possible skills, which would typically be found in a free family. Her father, a carpenter, and begin were able to read and write and had a great connection with their master. It was important that their children were in whatsoever case endowed with these analogous luxuries. The children learned early to read and write. They play happily with the smorgasbord mistress as many slaves would envy. However, slaveholding never shows any prolonged benignity for its victims. With the d eath of the salmagundi mistress and the incidental death of her pay off and father, Linda was subjected to the whims of her new master, Dr. Flint at the age of fourteen. As her ...'