Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Linda Brent

Sands, she suffers deep feelings of shame, but with the help of her daughter she eventually puts these feelings behind her and realizes that she’s not accountable for the sexual abuse she suffered as a teenager. When she has to sacrifice her chastity by having an affair with Mr. Likewise, Linda is a devoted mother with strong feelings of duty towards her children and an insistence on her rights as a mother, even though she sees those rights ignored by slave owners every day. Flint, she resists him at all costs, both because she doesn’t want to “submit to compulsion” at any time and because she feels it’s her Christian duty to safeguard her sexual purity. Even though it often seems impossible to evade Dr. Linda is an extraordinarily determined and perseverant young woman with a strong sense of her own rights and moral duties. Eventually, fearing that her children will be sent to work on the Flints’ plantation, she runs away and manages to reunite with her children in New York, where she ends the narrative just as she’s becoming an activist for abolition. Sands, and bears two children, Benny and Ellen. Flint, Linda has an affair with another slave owner, Mr. In order to avoid rape at the hands of Dr. Flint, who constantly sexually harasses her. Flint, a vicious and self-centered mistress, and Dr.

Born into slavery in North Carolina, Linda is forced to work for Mrs.

As its protagonist, she takes on the name Linda Brent in order to avoid recognition after its publication. Harriet Jacobs is the author of the narrative.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Linda Brent