Incidents #3

        When Jacobs goes to work on the plantation, it is easier to see how much she loves her children. When she visited them in the middle of the night, she describes the scene in such an emotional tone unlike the rest of the book. Generally, Jacobs wouldn't describe how comforting the house was but in this case she did. Jacobs took it a step further to describe "the tears[that] fell as I leaned over them" ( Jacobs 89). In all, the scene allows me to truly understand the love she has for her children. Later she writes that her children "give her the courage to beat back the dark waves that rolled over me in a seemingly endless night of storms" (Jacobs 92). Jacobs also goes to her mother and father's graves. She dedicates most of a page to tell of how much she missed them and how they as well gave her strength even from beyond the grave. This section really spoke to me unlike any other part of the hardships endured during slavery that weren't just whippings and beatings but the separation of families and death of family members. In the south, slavery was, I think ,just as mentally painful as well as physically painful.