What is Mrs. Jacobs referring to when she notes, the sad epoch of her life at the age of 15? Use the authors emotional tone to dissect and analyze three factors contributing to this period of depression in her life?

Format
Your essay should be formatted as follows: 3 pages, (not including the cover page) but no more than 3.5 pages, double-Spaced, Times New Roman, 12-point font, MLA format, and your essay must have a cover page. If you are unfamiliar with using MLA format to write an essay, please Google it several examples will come up. Just so we are clear I have read and studied this essay many times so please do not write a book report. Just so we are clear, I am asking for a reflection essay that reflects your answers to the questions with analysis/opinion based on the historical evidence presented by the author. Remember to include your analysis in your answers in order to completely answer the question. Your opinion of the reading based on the evidence is the only thing I do not know. There is also a Rubric attached so you can understand the grading scale.

Resources
Incidents In The Life of A Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs
(chapters 1 – 10) online in the Course module labeled “Additional Readings”.

Essay Directions
After reading the essay, Incidents In The Life of A Slave Girl, please respond to all of the following questions and be sure to keep your answers in essay format flowing like a normal essay, which means numbering is not necessary. You can answer the questions in any order just be sure to include your analysis in each answer to receive credit. The questions for your essay are as follows.

Historians, when analyzing black history, often focus on the psychological effects of slavery and racism on black people. However, what did the narrative of Mrs. Jacobs reveal about the negative psychological transformation of her white oppressors, give analysis to the authors observations of the negative mental transformation of both of her masters?

What is Mrs. Jacobs referring to when she notes, the sad epoch of her life at the age of 15? Use the authors emotional tone to dissect and analyze three factors contributing to this period of depression in her life?

Describe the difference gender made in the master-slave relationship Jacobs had with her master and mistress as an attractive female house slave and what dangers awaited her that a male slave would rarely encounter?

When Mrs. Jacobs hits puberty her grandmother stresses that she remain a virgin is that pressure from her grandmother fair, why or why not?

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