... of slavery is detrimental to both slave and slavemaster. Douglass recalls how most of the slave children went about the plantation naked because the master did not provide them with adequate clothing (Douglass 346). Jacobs, in the chapter called "Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders," renounces the myth of ... experience as a slave that slavery proved as harmful to him as it did his slave-mistress in that it destroyed her sense of morality and corrupted her soul. Both Douglass and Jacobs examine the fact that plantation life sheltered slaves from knowing the truth about how degrading an...

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... " of slavery without jeopardizing his reader's "conviction of the truthfulness of the picture." "I had acted according to his orders. He had told me to look for a master, and I had been to look for one." The master is so disarmed by his slave's nervy reply to his bullying question that he can only answer that "he did not tell me to go to ... , where the slave uses his wits to emphasize that he is and must be his own master, Brown testifies to a key element of real-world, day-to-day master-slave relationships. Only rarely did a violent physical confrontation resolve the tensions that motiv...

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... actions under slavery. After admitting to having sacrificed her purity for the sake of escaping Dr. Flints advance, she asks for understanding: "the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and in fact renders the practice of them impossible" (55). Jacobs lives in a society that refuses to protect her with laws or customs, and she should therefore be judged with ... , it needs an abler pen than mine to describe the extremity of their sufferings, the depth of their degradation"(52). Apparently, slavery not only obscures the morality of the slaves, but also those of the ma...

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... woman's burden was even greater. After being raped, a black woman was assured that she would get to keep her child. However, her child was generally sold off to another slave master, especially if she was breeding stock. Therefore women, more than men, were tied to the immediate environment of the plantation or farm. Beyond this, giving birth was a life-affirming action ... as William Wells Brown, Harriet Jacobs, and Frederick Douglass attempt to bring awareness to the country. For, once this type of exploitation is condoned with its lies and misconceptions, no morality exists. It corru...

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... woman's burden was even greater. After being raped, a black woman was assured that she would get to keep her child. However, her child was generally sold off to another slave master, especially if she was breeding stock. Therefore women, more than men, were tied to the immediate environment of the plantation or farm. Beyond this, giving birth was a life-affirming action ... as William Wells Brown, Harriet Jacobs, and Frederick Douglass attempt to bring awareness to the country. For, once this type of exploitation is condoned with its lies and misconceptions, no morality exists. It corru...

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