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I was reading the “Preface by the Author” and just by reading that I could tell that the story was going to be sad and gruesome. The author Harriet Jacobs describes the life of a slave, in the perspective of a slave. Linda, who is the main character, and the author, had been treated well as a child. Her life had drastically changed after her mother had passed away at the age of six. Her normal master had died and another took her. He wasn’t the normal master either. He would beat her until she bleed. An example of this is when her father dies she doesn’t have the permission from her master to visit his grave. Jacobs gives the reader the view on slavery from her eyes, and how they lived. She refers to the other people as just “slaves” meaning everybody that she is with, and she gives us her individual story by incorporating her life with how she lives.