“The more my mind had become enlightened, the more difficult it was for me to consider myself an article of property” (Harriet Jacobs, “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” 612).
Choose ONE of the slave narratives we have read in this term, written by either a male or female author. Discuss the author’s journey to freedom and the ways in which they insisted on their own humanity and dignity even while enslaved. Use at least one of the articles by Barbara Bush, Brenda Stevenson, or G.K. Lewis to help you theorize the slave narrator’s resistance and practices of survival.
