Jacob's effectiveness

I think that the most important set of experiences that Jacobs writes about is he sexual experiences with her masters. While a lot of her writing is very powerful, I think that this gives her writing the most credit.
The entire point of Jacob’s writing is to use true stories to show the evil side of slavery. One of the best ways to show this is to show how slavery dehumanizes the slaves. The most potent example she gives of this is how white masters use their slaves and then refuse to acknowledge their off spring. Then, to add insult to injury, they keep their illegitimate children as slaves. I can think of nothing that would be more insulting and degrading.
Her own personally experiences, while not actually amounting to rape, are no less potent. Her own master tries as hard as he can to force her into sexual relations, and when he can’t get that, he settles with degrading her sexuality verbally.
Jacobs does a great job describing her experiences in slavery, and he story about the sexual depravity of the white masters is especially effective.