¶ … River Runs Through Her: River Imagery and Symbolism in Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"
Water symbolism, and especially that of the river, is integral to Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Rivers, with their winding waters, are not just part of the geographic landscape or the natural world. For Jacobs, rivers and all bodies of water have both practical and symbolic functions. The river forms a physical barrier between places; it divides states and physical locations. Rivers divide cites like Philadelphia and they provide natural borders between cities and states. Rivers also help delineate the North and the South, which in Jacobs' time was eminently significant. Therefore, the river is a metaphorical barrier between slavery and freedom. The oppressive plantations of the south are separated from the Free States in the north by these flowing bodies of water. In Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, rivers extend into larger bodies of water like the Chesapeake Bay, which provide access to the various modes of transportation available at the time like rowboats and larger transport vessels. For the slave, and Jacobs in particular, the river implies a literal journey from one place to the next, and this physical journey parallels the journey from slavery to freedom. The river also symbolizes the lifetime journey between birth and death. The river is described frequently in the text as a place of death. The raging waters can drown a man like James or the woman described in Chapter XXII, killing their pain. However, more than anything, the river is a means to escape in Jacobs' narrative; it is the place of freedom. As such, the river can provide safe passage from the south to the Free states in the north. As Jacobs notes on page 237, the river was "safe method for escape." Because the river offers a safe passage to freedom, it also functions as a symbol of spiritual liberation throughout Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
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