Slavery and Christianity in Harriet A. Jacob’s Incidents in the Life of

The Incongruity of Slavery and Christianity in Harriet A. Jacobs Incidents in the vivification of a Slave Girl, scripted by HerselfSlavery, the Peculiar Institution of the South, caused woeful among an innumerable number of human beings. Some state could argue that the life sentence of a domestic animal would be better than being a knuckle down at least animals are incapable of feeling emotions. hapless countless atrocities, including sexual assault, beatings, and murders, these slaves endured much more than we would think is humanly come-at-able today. Yet, white southern Christians committed these atrocities, believing their behaviors were neither wrong nor immoral. look back at these atrocities, those who c every themselves Christians are appalled. In Incidents in the life-time of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, Harriet A. Jacobs describes the hypocrisy of Southern, Christian slave owners in order to show that slavery and Christianity are not congruent. We persis t these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness (Jefferson). doubting Thomas Jefferson, a white, Christian, political southern slave owner, wrote these words in 1776, a period in United States history when slavery thrived. The writer of the annunciation of Independence contradicts himself when he states that all men are created equal, when in actuality, his slaves were denied all that humans were meant to cherish. The slave owners accepted and rationalized slavery through the Holy ledger. The Bible mentions slavery on numerous occasions, and yet none of these passages condemn it. timothy 61-2 states, Let slaves regard th... ...e that chattel slavery was a cruel, obdurate institution that no human should ever have to endure. Most people realize today how hypocritical it was to call oneself a Christian, while treating sla ves so horribly. Throughout her book, Harriet Jacobs, in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, revealed Americans everywhere that slave owners were hypocrites, and calling themselves Christians was perhaps the greatest infernal region of all. Works CitedJacobs, Harriet A. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself. 1861. Ed. Lydia Maria Child. pertly ed. Jean Fagan Yellin. Cambridge Harvard UP, 1987.Jefferson, Thomas. The Declaration of Independence. 4 July 1776. The Holy Bible. New International Version. Zondervan Publishing House. 1983. King, Martin Luther. I Have a Dream. Washington, D.C. 28 Aug. 1963.