... mentioned above. Hence, for the slave woman, race and gender meant double oppression. It was not enough that the produce of her labor was owned by her master but her body was his as well.Thus, Jacobs's narrative constructed it's own primary audience of white middle classed women from the North, who were considered the moral guardians of the nation and ... " was an organization that dictated the moral codes for women's virtues and proper conduct, and women both in the North and in the South were judged upon its rules. Jacobs starts her story and states in the preface that she wants to "ar...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate