Directions: Answer the following questions in detail after reading Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl. Make sure that you: answer each question completely, that you use grammatically correct sentences, and number each of your answers, so there is no confusion. You may use passages and text from the reading to support your answers. If you do so, make sure to use the MLA format so that you do not get into trouble with plagiarism.
1.) Explain in detail, even though Harriet Jacobs is in love with a “free” African-American man, why does she not choose to marry him and start a family with him, as she desires?
2.) Explain in detail, why do you think that Jacobs decided to have children with Mr. Sands? Explain in detail.
3.) Do you think that Mr. Sands took advantage of, or “used,” Harriet Jacobs? Explain in detail.
4.) Do you think that Jacobs took advantage of, or “used,” Mr. Sands in anyway? Explain in detail.
5.) Even though it is true that Jacobs’ master Dr. Flint never sexually assaulted Jacobs, would you consider him to be a pedaphile by our standards today in 2021? Explain in detail and cite examples from the text to help support your answers.
1.) Explain in detail, why did Harriet Jacobs increasingly desire to escape from her master Dr. Flint, despite the fact that he offered to build a private cabin for her?
2.) In what ways did Jacobs use her education and her intelligence to literally, and figuratively, attain freedom from Dr. Flint? Explain in detail.
3.) In what ways could Jacobs’ autobiography be considered a work of early American feminism? Explain in detail.
4.) What effect do you think Jacobs hopes her words will have upon the reader of her autobiography? Explain in detail.
5.) Do you think there are still relevant and important messages in Jacobs’ autobiography today in 2020? Explain in detail. a. ) Please share your feelings thoughts and impressions of Jacobs’ autobiography.
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