Homework question about Harriet Jacobs’ novel: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Consider the novel’s title (including a quotation from the Declaration of Independence) in conjunction with the first chapter “The Negro Sale,” which revolves around the auctioning off of two daughters of Thomas Jefferson, and is framed by stanzas from the anonymous poem “The Slave Auction – A Fact.” What is the issue or the “inconsistency “that is highlighted by choosing Jefferson’s slave daughters as protagonists?
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