1. Fallen Women Amanda Bryant Deanna Grey Jarrod Jones Amy Gress Incidents in The Life of a Slave Girl

2. Summary Make Northern women aware of the abuses that slave women face in the South Specifically mentions: Her childhood as a slave Cruelties slaves face, especially sexual abuses How she dealt with these cruelties and overcomes them to eventually flee to the North

3. Slaves as Property Not viewed as people Source of wealth Lack of compassion for them

4. Related Quotes “But as she grew older she evinced so much intelligence, and was so faithful, that her master and mistress could not help seeing it was for their interest to take care of such a valuable piece of property.” –pg. 2 “He was a slave; and the feeling was that the master had a right to do what he pleased with his own property.” –pg. 52

5. Fear of Punishment Fear of bodily or mental harm –Death Lack of protection under law –Master’s could kill them without reason

6. Related Quotes “Dr. Flint swore he would kill me, if I was not as silent as the grave.” –pg. 28 “Some poor creatures have been so brutalized b the lash that they will sneak out of the way to give their masters free access to their wives and daughters.” –pg. 46 “Mighty is the power of the torturing lash.” –pg. 69 “Yet the laws allowed him to be out in the free air, while I, guiltless of crime, was pent up here, as the only means of avoiding the cruelties the laws allowed him to inflict upon me!”– pg. 135

7. No Protection Under Law for Slave Marriages No slave marriage sancitified by ‘real’ laws Families torn apart Wives abused by masters –No repercussions from husbands

8. Related Quotes “I loved him with all the ardor of a young girl’s first love. But when I reflected that I was a slave, and that the laws gave no satisfaction to the marriage of such, my heart sank within me.”-pg. 38 “The husband of a slave has no power to protect her.”- pg. 38 “I stood a moment gazing at the hateful man who claimed a right to rule me, body and soul.”-pg. 40

9. Lack of Protection from North Fugitive slave laws –Keep slaves from finding freedom No protection from the North

10. Related Quotes “When victims make their escape from the wild beast of Slavery, northerners consent to act the part of bloodhounds, and hunt the poor fugitive back into his den”-pg. 36 “But while the Free States sustain a law which hurls fugitives back into slavery, how can the slaves resolve to become men?” –pg. 46

11. Slave Women Status and Sexual Abuse  Slave women taken advantage of frequently  “Right” of the master for slave to obey him

12. Related Quotes “She is not allowed to have any pride of character. It is deemed a crime in her to wish to be virtuous.” –pg. 30 “The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear. The lash and the foul talk of her master and his sons are her teachers…she is whipped or starved into submission to their will.” –pg. 55 “I turned from him with disgust and hatred. But he was my master.” – pg. 27 “Women are considered of no value, unless they continually increase their owner’s stock.”-pg. 52 “I feel that slave women ought not to be judged by the same standard as others” –pg. 60 “If a pastor has offspring by a woman not his wife, the church dismiss him, if she is a white woman; but if she is colored, it does not hinder his continuing to be their good shepherd.” –pg. 83

13. Fallen Women Status Not accepted by fellow slaves or whites Babies were sign of shame –Common occurrence in society

14. Related Quotes “There was no chance for me to be respectable. There was no prospect of being able to lead a better life.” –pg. 84 “I am surprised at your being there, among those negroes. It was not the place for you. Are you allowed to visit such people?” –pg. 92

15. Cult of Domesticity White women expected to be submissive, pure, obedient –Married as young as 15 Insensitive to slaves for jealousy and cruelty Unable to control husbands because of status as a female

16. Related Quotes “She was incapable of feeling for the condition of shame and misery in which her unfortunate, helpless slave was placed”- pg. 33 “The young wife soon learns that the husband in whose hands she has placed her happiness pays no regard to his marriage vows. Children of every shade of complexion play with her own fair babies, and too well she knows that they are born unto him of his own household.”-pg. 36-7

17. Point of the Novel Destruction of the human spirit –Effect on the novel Hypocrisy of slaveowners “The war of my life had begun; and though one of God’s most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.” –pg. 15 “I cannot tell how much I suffered in the presence of these wrongs, nor how I am still pained by the retrospect.”-pg. 28 “What a libel upon the heavenly Father, who “made of one blood all nations of men!” –pg. 47 “Dr. Flint was “styled a perfect gentleman. He also boasted the name and standing of a Christian, though Satan never had a truer follower” –pg. 53

18. Outside Sources Fallen Women in Victorian Society And Modern Day Trafficking

19. Trafficking in Women The State Department estimates that 14,500 to 17,500 people are trafficked into the United States each year Small Crime Rings and Criminal Networks Southeast Asia and Latin America United States San Francisco Chronicle 2005 Report "Human trafficking is nothing less than a modern form of slavery,“ -Condoleezza Rice

20. Modern Slavery What we are experiencing in this country is a modern form of slavery. In many ways it parallels the same experience that... that the victims felt in the antebellum days of the South. The people that are brought here are essentially not brought in chains, but they're brought accompanied by traffickers. They're made sure that as soon as they arrive at the point of destination, that they're whisked away to an unfamiliar situation in the same way that the slaves in the South were whisked away to the slave master or the slave trader to an unfamiliar location. And then, once the slaves are acculturated and the master starts feeling comfortable about their ability to be trusted and not to run away, that they were then released from their chains. Michael Gennaco heads the civil rights section of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles.

21. Fallen Women in Victorian Society Labeled a public enemy and social outcast Characteristics of fallen women –Economic and social status Compared to modern day prostitution Considered “unsalvageable” after falling »Information from http://www.gober.net/victorian/reports/pros tit.html

22. Discussion "I began to tell her how they had driven me into great sin" (p.188) –Were Linda's actions of her own free will? How representative were Linda's experiences of a typical slave woman in the time? "Slavery is terrible for men, but it is far more terrible for women" –Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not? –Does she fall? If so, to whom and why?