Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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When describing the virtues that made her grandmother “a Remarkable Woman,” Linda cites her “indispensable personage in the household, officiating in all capacities, from cook and wet nurse to seamstress” (Jacobs 2003, 1).... The African American woman in the cult of true womanhood was a domestic hostage, and also a laborer, breeder and concubine.... The attributes by which a woman and her husband, neighbors and society defined true womanhood, as documented by Welter (1966, 151), were divided into domesticity, submissiveness, purity and piety, and anyone who tampered with these virtues would be considered not only as the enemy of God, but also of civilization and the Republic....