Narrating the Historicity in Harriet ׳s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Abstract

This research writing "Narrating the Historicity in Harriet's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" focuses on the history of America. In 1861, over 3 million African American were slaves in the south. This research work will attempt to analyze how a minor age black girl is exploited in African American society. In this study, the novel is analyzed through the perspective of Afro American feminism or feminism.The main issue in this writing is the prejudice of white men and their inhuman behaviour toward black. In the novel Linda uses her sexuality to liberate from the exploitation and separate from Flint. An autobiographical novel is similar with the life events of the writer Harriet Jacob. As in past, black African Americans worked for white people and received no money for their works which makes the term slavery clear. Harriet Jacobs's autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), is one of the widely-read female antebellum slave narratives.

There were few slave rebellions against slavery including Nat Turner as well as Harriet Jacobs herself but all the rebellions failed. In recounting her life experiences before she was freed, Jacobs offers her contemporary readers a startlingly realistic portrayal of her sexual history she has undergone during her slavery .Linda the main character of the novel narrates her autobiography which is concentrated with the sexual exploitation. The main concern of this research is abuse of the white toward the African American girl and her struggle for liberation. Harriet is both sexually and physically exploited from the white men. In America around 1840s and 1850s people in the north and south didn’t like each other due to the issues of slavery. Frederick Douglass was famous abolitionists who was former slave at that time.