Shrouded Christianity
The Bible is a “roadmap” that shows how one ought to live their life. It contains the mind of God and gives Christians moral guidelines and examples of which to abide by. Although the oppressors in both “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” written by Harriet Jacobs and “Our Nig” written by Harriet E. Wilson, claim to be of the Christian faith, there is a disparity between their religious values and how they actually treat their “slaves”. Jacobs and Wilson show how this hypocrisy leads to physical abuse, limitations, and mental anguish. Both “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” and “Our Nig” are replete with an insubordination of Christian values and the authors use this to exemplify the wrong doings towards slaves. The word of the Lord says, “Whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them.”(Matthew 7:12) This scripture, however, was not one of the Christian values that Dr. Flint and Mrs. Flint abided by in “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.” Throughout her story, Harriet Jacobs describes the many hardships that Linda Brent went through. “Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day…”(223). These are not the words that would come out a Christian mouth, for
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Approximate Word count = 1151
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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