Slave Girl

This book is important to the honesty and passage of truths from a time that we may not otherwise understand or appreciate. Around the time of slavery, and now for that matter, it could easily be taken as a Northern view on bashing and damning slavery and its practices sharing all of the injustices and cruelties. What it does apart from evoking passionate feelings and going against moral codes is provide an account and narration of human nature/justification, and why we should remember and understand such episodes and cruelties. The editor wants it to be known that nothing was changed from author to page. This is a first hand account of a former slave and wasn’t conjured up or drastically altered. The idea that a former slave could write so eloquently and preach of the injustices that she underwent is a testimony to the equality and intelligence of slaves and they’re being humans too. This book does a lot to portray slaves as ordinary people like whites who are only distinct by the color of their skin and try to get along in the unjust society they’re thrust in. There is very little and next to nothing of unique slave culture or traditions mentioned. You are left with a people just like us.