Her reason for writing this essay is so noble. She states that it is essentially not to talk shit, which is incredible, considering what she’s been through, but instead to let the women in the north know what her sisters are going through. I plan to hopefully write a similar essay for my personal essay assignment concerning the state of our justice system and the cops, and I hope I can keep my resentments and personal anger out of it.
Jacobs states that she is uneducated, but she has such an expansive, well used vocabulary, that I don’t see it.
When she’s talking about being weaned at 3 months, so the master’s daughter could be fed, that really struck a chord. How f**ed up.
Page 371, she uses the bible verse Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself to illustrate the hypocrisy of the mistress’ actions. Love it. She doesn’t come out and say it exactly, she just says, “…I suppose she did not recognize me as her neighbor.”
I hear no resentment in the author’s voice; she almost gives credit for the slave owners behaving the way they did (not paying back the $300 loan, counting out the number of biscuits made, etc.). This allows the reader to feel his or her own horror and indignation at the stuff that happened. I find this technique is quite effective.
I really liked this line on page 379: “The war of my life had begun; and though one of God’s most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.”
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