![]() ![]() The authors included these relationships in the ways that they did to show the cruelness and inhumane side of slavery. ![]() Although these motherly figures are not always present in the protagonist's life, they were still able to influence their children a great deal despite how far slavery pushed them. ![]() Oppositely to Brent, Douglass did not have a relationship with his mother and her absence shaped him into the man he would later become. Linda Brent has a strong relationship with her grandmother who instills the morals that Linda lived by before she sacrificed in hopes that she would be freed. Is there any bond stronger than the one between a mother and her child? In Frederick Douglass's narrative and "The Incidents of a Slave Girl," by Harriet Jacobs, this question is put to the test through the horrors of slavery. ![]()
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