Harriet Jacobs revised for the last time!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love reading real life stories , but they make me so sad. While reading "Incidents in the life of a slave girl" by Harriet Jacobs, a number of things stood out to me. The first thing was how slave mothers were wet nurses for their mistresses: "She became an indispensable personage in the household, officiating in all capacities, from cook and wet nurse to seamstress."(pg 2012) You would think the mother of a new born child would not want this. The slaves were considered property, not different from a cow or a pig. Would you let a pig feed your child? My point is: Some slave owners thought slaves as property and treated them poorly, but would trust them to feed their child.
The next thing that caught my attention was how Jacobs avoided being raped by her master. At a young age Mr.Flint let her know that he wanted to have sex with her. But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear."(pg2017) He constantly watched her, followed her, made nasty comments to her, and harassed her. Being a married man he had to sneak around and do these unjust things, but his wife who was quickly suspicious.
Jacobs had a few tricks of her own to deal with his slick ways. She stayed in the sight of other people during the day. Jacobs slept in a room with her great aunt at night where she felt safe. At one point Dr.Flint comes up with an idea to have his youngest child sleep in the room with him so he could have a reason for a nurse to sleep in the room as well, namely Jacobs. That only made Mrs. Flint question his actions more, eventually question Jacobs herself who comes clean to what Mr.Flint has been trying to do. Mrs.Flint promises to protect her from Mr.Flint, but Jacobs does not believe her because she understands that she is the object of her jealousy. Mrs. Flint does change the sleeping arrangements and Jacobs is saved for the time being by luck, her smart wits, or cleverness.
The next thing that caught my attention was how Jacobs Still had compassion for Mrs.Flint even though she was not nice to her: "As I went on with my account her color changed frequently, she wept and sometimes groaned. She spoke in tones so sad that I was touched by her grief." (pg2018) I don't think I would have felt any compassion for a person like Mrs. Flint. I would have told her what happened with a smirk on my face coming to the same conclusion as Jacobs, "But she had no compassion for the poor victim of her husband's perfidy. She pitied herself as a martyr; but she was incapable of feeling for the condition of shame and misery in which her unfortunate, helpless slave was placed." (pg 2018)
How can you have pity for some one who has none for you?