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I need help with writing a paper based on the book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Topic and requirements are showed in orange in the attached file. 5 pages not including work cited page and topic. double spaced
I already have a thesis and outlines. Please develop the paper based on them, but feel free to add what is necessary.
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The Distinction between Slavery for Men and Slavery for Women
Thesis statement: Slavery was the hell for African men, but it was far worse for women, because
slave girls were tortured not only physically but also mentally. The mental suffers included
sexual abuse and motherhood.
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Sexual abuse by her master
Motherhood
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The Distinction between Slavery for Men and Slavery for Women
Over a long period of time, Africans were subjected to slavery by the European nations.
Slavery in Africa, however, took different forms among them being; chattery slavery, debt
bondage, forced labor, and serfdom. Both men and women were subjected to harsh conditions
during and after being taken into slavery where most died due to harsh conditions. Slavery was
the hell for African men, but it was far worse for women because slave girls were tortured not
only physically but also mentally. The mental suffers included sexual abuse and motherhood.
Sexual Abuse by her Master
It was a fact of slavery that women were sexually oppressed and abused by their masters
in Africa. In comparison to men, women were most sexually exploited by their masters
sometimes even at the expense of their husbands. Female slavery in most cases would be
exploited by their masters in a sexual manner and since they had no option of refusing they
would give into their masters' demands. Such scenarios were tormenting and hard for the female
slaves to bear. African female slaves didn’t have the choice to choose who to love; instead, they
would be dragged around by their masters and be abused sexually, whenever the masters felt like
it. Sexual abuse and oppression were just but among the few horrors that slavery presented.
Sexually violence was evident during the slavery era. Most female slaves had no control over
who to love, instead, they would be forced to love their masters no matter the situation. Just like
many African female slaves, Linda was unable to freely love and get married to the man she
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loved (Jacobs 36). Sexual exploitation is evident in the narrative ‘The incidents in the life of a
slave girl’, something which can be compared to the slavery of female slaves “My master met
me at every turn, reminding me that I belonged to him, and swearing by heaven and earth that he
would compel me to submit to him” (Jacobs 27). In the narrative Linda was sexually abused by
her master, she di...