The tales of slave women In the book Incidents in the Life of a Slave, written by Harriet Jacobs under the guise of Linda Brent, the writer describes the adversities of southern slave in the 1800s. According to Linda Brent, aka author Harriet Jacobs, the life of a slave was much more complex than that of a male slave, although reasonably equal in hardship, a woman's experience of slavery was terribly different. he has a story very different from that of a slave, so his narrative is rare in tales of slavery. She points out that, just like every male slave, women were also beaten, starved, or forced to work in hot fields. But unlike men, women suffer sexual harassment from their masters and the loss of their children due to cotton production. In repeated accounts, she describes the anguish of mothers whose children were sold and the humiliation of enslaved girls who were sexually abused by the white man. For enslaved women, these experiences were as harsh as any physical punishment received from men, if not harder. Linda Brent and Harriet Jacobs' experiences in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl attest that slavery was crueler to them. slave women. When Linda Brent discovered that she had given birth to a baby girl, she imagined every single misfortune, pain and shame her daughter had unintentionally inherited. Every bit of emotional pain and physical pain she had felt during her life as a slave was about to be passed on to her most precious possession, her daughter; a daughter who would be owned. “When they told me my newborn was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible... middle of paper... purity and moral beliefs unlike slave women who were forced to submit to the will of her master and give up their purity regardless of their ethical standards. “But, oh, you happy women whose purity has been protected from childhood… do not judge too harshly the poor desolate slave! (Jacobs 60) What Jacobs is saying is that enslaved women cannot be held accountable for their lack of virtuousness. If it had depended on Linda's decision, she would have maintained her chastity for the partner of her choice, but this was delusional thinking in a slave system. “…I did my best to preserve my self-respect; but I struggled alone in the powerful grip of the demon of slavery; and the monster proved too strong for me” (Jacobs 60) No matter how much effort Linda made to escape Dr. Flint's sexual advances, the end results would be the same for Linda or any other woman in bondage.