Story · United States · 1861
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
78Worth an evening.
Adult, and the hiding was a mother's work, not a tale I will decorate.
The review
Harriet Jacobs published this under a pseudonym. She hid for years in a small attic to stay near her children and to escape a man who claimed her. Adult. I will not describe the sexual coercion, and I will not let a summary sneak it back in. A teen can read it with that warning. The hiding is the fact worth staying on.
She tells what the law allowed a man to do to a girl he held as property. That is a public failure, not a private sadness you can file under long ago. The children are why the attic is bearable to her and unbearable to me. I would not call the endurance pretty. I would call the law the thing that failed.
Journal
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No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
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The glance
Temperance is the thin one.
Is appetite shown and then put down, or are you being trained to want the next one?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 6Industry
Years in a small attic are the labor that kept her near her children.
- 9Household
She hid to stay near her children; they are the life, not a prop.
- 8Piety
Conscience makes her refuse a claim the law allowed a man to make.
- 9Courage
She spent years in a small attic to stay near her children and escape.
- 8Republic
She tells what the law allowed, a debt the public did not pay.
- 5Temperance
The account records a claim she fled; it does not school you to want more.
- 9Truth
Under a pseudonym, she still tells what the law allowed him to do.
- 8Stewardship
What remains is the record, and the children she would not leave.
Where to read
Finding the page.
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