Harriet Jacobs Essay

We have read the two texts "Ain't I a woman?" by Sojourner Truth and "Incidents in the life..." by Harriet Jacobs in which both of them are slaves and how their stories have in common and how their views of morality differ.

Sojourner Truth is an African-American slave and is fighting anti slavery through

her words and is encouraging other African-American people to have an equal life, justice and respect like the white people are experiencing. She fought for her freedom by her words, "That man over there says women need to be helped into carriages and lifted over ditches and to have the best place everywhere". She defended the man and concluded that he was right. Nevertheless, she said "Then that little man in black there he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a man!". This made Sojourner Truth so mad because of being immoral of the man.

While Harriet Jacobs was the same as Sojourner Truth however, the only difference is Harriet Jacobs fought by hiding her thoughts and feelings and just keeping her not-so-good- life in the attic and by not fighting for her freedom. "I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress". She was a slave of Mr. and Mrs. Flint , in which she was raped and had children of two but that doesn't end there Mr. Flint also fathered eleven slaves, but the mother of the children did not dare to allude it cause they know the terrible consequences. Indeed, Harriet Jacobs is one of them, "I was an object of her jealousy, and consequently, o