In Harriet Jacob's "Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl" Linda Brent reveals the unique brutalities that were inflected on enslaved women that would make one believe that it was best to be dead then to be a slave. "Incidents" discussed the economics of slavery; the quest for freedom; pain and suffering (physical and emotional) community support and family loyalty; resistance and the issue of literacy. It also includes moral conflict between slavery and …showed first 75 words of 536 total…

…showed last 75 words of 536 total…picture this in my mind. These very, very brutal incidents and treatments from the hands of the salve master. My feelings on this is "How inhumane!" The abuse that the slave suffered has an effect on the African Americans today to the point that some of the African Americans feel inferior and beneath Anglo-Saxon's. So, the slaves suffered tremendous abuse that one would think it is best to be dead then to be a slave.