Sisterhood of women

In her book "Incidents in the Life of a Slave girl" Jacobs uses this term in relation to the damage that slavery does to women in general who come into contact with it.

The primary recepients are of course the slave women who soon find themselves at the mercy of their masters ( as in the case of Dr. Flint who wishes to enter into concubinage with Linda ) and those who rebel against this behaviour find themselves and/or their children in very difficult positions.

However the southern wives are too susuceptible to the damage that slavery has the power to cause. As in the case of Mrs. Flint she is mortified at the fact that her husband has seduced Linda for it not only shamefully reflects upon an unhappy and unsatisfactory relationship but also it reduces her to the same position as Linda - that of a baby producing machine. She too in turn has been objectified as a body. Thus slavery has repercussions that affect not just the slave women who are the direct receipents of their masters' physical desire but it also taints the relationship that all women share as sisters.

-Dione Joseph