Incidents in the Life of a Slave Gir
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| show | 3/18 power of sentimentality
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| But, alas! we all know that the memory of a faithful slave does not avail much to save her children from the auction block. | show 🗑
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| show | 3/18 virtue is extremely important to white women because of motherhood and wife
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| show | 3/18 fake kindness to her by comparing his treatment to other slavemasters
-predatory male
-even-tempered responses to him
-her intelligence is disarming to him
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| show | Linda’s nostalgia for her childhood and comfort that she derives from her childhood home contrasts with the lack of protection it actually affords her, thus setting up a tension between the value of family life and the threats posed to it by slavery.
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| show | These misfortunes will help convince Linda that it’s useless to live by the “rules” of slavery, and imperative to escape it altogether.
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| show | Grandmother’s “faithful” service, which doesn’t prevent her owners from selling her children. She argues that even an apparently peaceful coexistence between slaveholders and slaves is just a veneer concealing an inevitably exploitative relationship.
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| After a brief period of suspense, the will of my mistress was read, and we learned that she had bequeathed me to her sister’s daughter, a child of Sve years old. So vanished our hopes. | show 🗑
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| show | Linda asserts that even if they don’t actively participate in slavery, Northerners make themselves complicit by tacitly condoning it.
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| “I have half a mind to kill you on the spot.” At last he broke the silence, and that was a relief to both of us. “So you want to be married, do you?” said he, “and to a free nigger.” “Yes, sir.” “Well, I’ll soon convince you whether I am your master, | show 🗑
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| show | While Linda criticizes herself, she also makes clear that her actions were predicated by the conditions of slavery and her sexual vulnerability within the system.
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| show | Although Linda is always respectful and loyal towards Grandmother, she will eventually depart from her strict views on sexuality, coming to a more nuanced and tolerant understanding of her own actions.
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