Harriet Jacobs Essay

We have read the two texts “Ain’t I a woman?” by Sojourner Truth and “Incidents in the life…” by Harriet Jacobs in which both of them are slaves and how their stories have in common and how their views of morality differ.

Sojourner Truth is an African-American slave and is fighting anti slavery through

her words and is encouraging other African-American people to have an equal life, justice and respect like the white people are experiencing. She fought for her freedom by her words, “That man over there says women need to be helped into carriages and lifted over ditches and to have the best place everywhere”. She defended the man and concluded that he was right. Nevertheless, she said “Then that little man in black there he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ‘cause Christ wasn’t a man!”. This made Sojourner Truth so mad because of being immoral of the man.

While Harriet Jacobs was the same as Sojourner Truth however,