Deconstructing the black female body in Harriet Jacobs incidents in the life of a slave girl. Making connections: interdisciplinary approaches to cultural diversity 13.1 2011 4-20. Academic search complete. Web. 14 June 2015. This article by Patricia Hopkins discusses the topic of rape and how it affects the way we see one another interracially. it starts off by stating that the violated African American female body is only discussed after the mentioning of the lynched African American male or the raped white female as if it cannot be deemed its own topic. this is because it was completely unjustifiable unlike the lynching of her African American male counterpart creating speculations causing people to ask questions such as what did he do the rape of an African American female tends to be overlooked and ignored because it is almost impossible for people to speak this horrendous act from their lips.
The article then goes on to talk about the various reasons why rape was utilized including humiliation control and dominance. it did this by taking control of a woman’s body and mind through physical force showing her that she is property equal to the rug the master walks on; it showed the males that they powerless and the lesser because they were unable to protect their women. I plan to use this article to describe the emotional mind state of African American in the time of slavery. Kreiger Georgia. playing dead: Harriet Jacobs survival strategy in incidents in the life of a slave girl.african American review 3-4 2008 607. literature resource center. web. 14 June 2015. this article is a description of how Harriet Jacobs in her slave narrative: incidents in the life of a slave girl survived. it starts off by stating the amount death she saw and how much mental abuse she endured during her marathon to freedom. it then goes on to make the point.
That Jacobs employees death as a way of submitting and resisting in the same notion in this writing like an animal who plays dead to outsmart its predator. it also expresses the tone of the text by creating an understanding of Harriet’s mental mind state and paying close detail to her honesty about the sin-ridden past she had lived. unlike most other feministic slave narratives jacobs openly expressed his faults stating I feel that the slave women ought not to be judged by the standard as others. I plan to use this source as a way to show the strengths that Harriet Jacobs possessed. morgan Winifred. the gender-related difference in the slave narratives of Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass. n.p.: gale 2004.literature resource center.
Web. 14 June 2015. this source is a criticism which talks about the differences in the way slave narratives were written when it came to gender by using Frederick Douglas and Harriet Jacobs as examples. it starts by stating that slave men and women alike suffered physical emotional and spiritual abuse. then it goes on to state that the differences in these writings fall under literacy and relationships. for Frederick Douglas education was everything. he felt this way because he believed it gave him the power to assert his existence and his freedom from those who oppressed him, unlike Harriet Jacobs who believed in literacy but was not as opinioned on the subject due to her oppressors teaching her this traded and nurtured her to some extent. lastly, it states that feminist writing is more so based on the impactful relationships in their lives and less on how they had to prove their worth to the world like many male narratives.
I plan to use this source as a way of comparing and contrasting male and female slave narratives. rodriguez Junius p. slavery in the united states a social political and historical encyclopedia. santa barbara calif: ABC-Clio 2007. ebook collection EBSCOhost web. 14 June 2015. this source is an encyclopedia that lists the most impactful dates known about the slave trade and popularity of slavery in the united states. I plan to use this source to create a timeline in my paper to show the progression of slavery in the united states. stone Andrea. interracial sexual abuse and legal subjectivity in antebellum law and literature. american literature 81.1 2009 65. advanced placement source. web. 14 June 2015. this article written by Andrea stone focuses on the standard for which a slave should be treated. it states that James madisons definition of a slaves mixed character requires labor for another restraint of liberty and chastisement of the body yet gives slaves protection of life and limb and demands punishment against him..
Acknowledging the fact that slaves have moral character and that they are more than property but less than equal persons under united states law under the three-fifths clause of the constitution also it introduces proslavery viewpoints such as those of Thomas cobs who felt that the three-fifths clause was a double standard because it permitted a master to own slaves but opened them up to punishment for reprimanding them. abolitionists argued that just because slaves were granted some righted the criminal and civil laws were still only beneficial to white people. this idea was brought on because slaves could be held accountable for criminal acts yet had the inability to act legally in their own self-interest. I plan to use this source to generate an understanding of what slavery is to my rea
