Question about Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl:

What are some things that you learned about slavery from this excerpt? Explain how this bit of information enhances your understanding of or changes your emotional response to slavery in the United States. Your response should be at least 125 words long.

Although the excerpt is not included in this question, we can still provide some information about the text Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. This text is an autobiography by author and fugitive slave Harriet Jacobs. Some of the things that you can learn in this text are: the way African American slaves were treated in the United States; the differences in how England and the United States treated slaves, the way slave laws operated or how the abolitionist movement worked at the time.