Thursday’s Book

My sisters and I are reading this for our book club this month. I recommended it for my friends book club later in the year.

You know what after reading these last two books, I am so heart sickened by the mistreatment of children, aren’t you! I have seriously had it.

This book that was published in 1861. It chronicles the experiences of Harriet Jacobs as a slave, and the various humiliations she had to endure in that unhappy state, it also deals with the particular tortures visited on women at her station.

Linda Brent- The lead protagonist and a pseudonym for Harriet Jacobs. In the story Linda at a young age is unaware of her being a slave due to the fact of her parents not telling her and her parents' masters allowing them to have their own home and raise their family. She faces betrayal and harassment by her many white masters. Linda along the way learns how to defend herself against her masters.Also later on she is torn between her wants of personal freedom and her feeling of personal responsibility to her family, especially her children Benny and Ellen.

A must read to all who really want understand what the life of a slave is like.