THE CORRUPTING POWER OF SLAVERY IN HARRIET ANN JACOB'S INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL

Abstract

The American society during the nineteenth century illustrates in a great picture the suffering of the black Americans due to the oppression, bondage,  and  capitalism. The black  experience  of  slavery  in  America  begins  with  the  enforced transportation  of  thousands  of  Africans  across  the  Atlantic  to  America  mainly  in  the  North. The  slaves  survived  on  a  very  basic  diet  and  their  clothing  and  housing  could  at  best  be described as  adequate.  Also they worked  very  hard  with  little  opportunity  to  release  the pressure  of  their  lives.  The  black  experience  of  slavery  in  North  America  is  one  of  great suffering.This study aims to find out how Harriet Ann Jacobs in a realistic way portray her life and the lives  of  several  women  under  the  evil  of  slavery  and  it  spots  light  on  the  aspects  of  this phenomenon that goes parallel with racial discrimination, bad treatment and sexual abuse. So, by studying this particular narrative about the southern slave system, the research is going to have good understanding  of  not  only  the  community  of  southern  slaves  but  also  American  society  as  awhole.