Incidents in the Life: try to add to two columns if possible. by SARAH GRAY

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graysarah — 2023-12-05 17:06:22 UTC

Pages 8-47

graysarah — 2023-12-05 17:07:19 UTC

Pages 8-47

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Kamaya-“slaves had no rights to family ties”

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Madison- why did she trust her owner so much?

2023-12-05 19:22:28 UTC

How does Harriet remember so much about her mom if she died when Harriet was only 6 years old?- Ali

2023-12-05 19:22:58 UTC

She mentions people in her life as “brother” and other family terms, are these people actually her brother or is that just how she refers to all these people? - Addison

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Kamaya - the grandmother being able to purchase her son

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Why does she refer to so many people in the book as “sons” or “daughters” of Harriet’s grandma?- Ali

2023-12-05 19:23:48 UTC

The owner has a really strange obsession with Harriet and refuses to sell her to anyone- Ali

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Gray- “these god-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend”

2023-12-05 19:24:17 UTC

The jealously her mistress had over her in regards to her husband was reoccurring throughout the last few chapters of the book- Addison

2023-12-05 19:24:27 UTC

she mentions the "foul words" her master started telling her but doesn't elaborate - why doesn't she? isn't part of the point of a slave narrative to show the horrors of slavery in full? - bex

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Graham - The grandmother owned a house even though she was enslaved

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Kirsten- why doesn’t Linda think about running away more now that her situation is so bad? She agrees with William, but there isn’t much internal thinking included about it

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Matthew-Why is dr. Flint so obsessed with Harriet?

2023-12-05 19:25:08 UTC

Jack p - pg 28 “I once saw two beautiful children playing together. One was a fair white child; the other was her slave, and also her sister. When I saw them embracing each other, and heard their joyous laughter, I turned sadly away from the lovely sight. I foresaw the inevitable blight that would fall on the little slave's heart. I knew how soon her laughter would be changed to sighs.”

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Kamaya - her grandmother was very proud of working so hard to earn her treatment like a human being

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Parker - “ ‘The baby is dead, thank God; and I hope my poor child will soon be in heaven, too.’ “

2023-12-05 19:25:31 UTC

“Slaveholders pride themselves upon being honorable men; but if you were to hear the enormous lies they tell their slaves, you would have small respect for their veracity”- Page 39. Ali

Maidson

2023-12-05 19:26:04 UTC

Women are considered of no value pg(44)

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David - she was willing to wait 7 years for her freedom

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Cami Smith- Her Grandmother gad lent her earnings to her mistress

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Graham - Who was her little friend who passed?

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her relationship with her mistress and condemning her for her jealousy, but also sympathetic toward her - "one word of kindness from her would have brought me to her feet ." (30) - bex

2023-12-05 19:27:05 UTC

What happened to Benjamin after he disappeared again? - jack

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Why did it take her so long for her to realize she was a slave? - George

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Kamaya - “she knew that her own husband violated the purity she had so carefully inculcated” pg. 45

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Kirsten- „the lash and foul talk her master and his sons are her teachers. „ (45)

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She seems to be a relatively religious person, as she refers to god multiple times throughout the text- Ali

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Matthew- “As for the jail, there would be more peace for me than there is here.” Page 36

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Parker - For the first 6 years of Harriet’s life, she was oblivious to the way other slaves were treated.

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Tai - “ If I knelt by my mothers grave, his dark shadow fell on me even there. The light heart which nature had given me became heavy with sad forebodings”

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How does she remember so much about her mother when she died when Harriet was so young?-Sophia

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Younger slave life for woman that have young mistresses changes a lot as they grow up - jack

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Is she religious because she wanted to be, or was it forced on her? - Ali

2023-12-05 19:28:51 UTC

Tai - What happened to Benjamin?

2023-12-05 19:29:34 UTC

Cami Smith- “Those were happy days-too happy to last” (Jacobs 10).

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How does her experiences differ from other enslaved women during this time?- George

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Ava - “Reader, it is not to awaken sympathy for myself that I am telling you truthfully what I suffered in slavery. I do it to kindle a flame of compassion in your hearts for my sisters who are still in bondage, suffering as I once suffered.”

2023-12-05 21:01:05 UTC

How was the grandmother able to purchase her son if she was owned by a master? -Ava

2023-12-06 02:09:26 UTC

The change in the relationship with her master. How he changed from protecting her to hating her in a matter of minutes after he found out about Herriet’s lover- Emilie

2023-12-06 02:11:22 UTC

Why did her master like her so much? -Emilie