In the story "Incidents in the Life of a Slave" (ILSG), written by Harriet Jacobs, implies that masters and slaves are victims, furthermore neither it is responsible for what society has institutionalized, not just for the individual discrimination of whites against blacks; which is rape, extreme labor, whipping and other violence in the act of slavery. As sectional tensions within the United States escalated into the Civil War, African slavery became an increasingly important focal point for literary texts of the antebellum period such as ILSG; highlighting the violence and decrepitude experienced by slaves in the South. Slave journalists had visions of loyal, happy slaves who depended on their owners for their well-being and protection ("Slavery, Violence, and Exploitation in 19th-Century US Literature | OER Commons"). people bound into vassalage as property of a person or family ("slave"). Slavery was widespread throughout the American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries, and African American slaves facilitated the building of the new nation's economic foundations. The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 solidified the central importance of slavery to the Southern economy. By the mid-19th century, America's westward expansion, coupled with a growing abolition movement in the North, prompted a major debate over slavery that would tear the nation apart in the bloody American Civil War (1861-65) ( "Slavery"). A victim is a person who is embittered or deceived by someone else ("Victim - Definition and more from the free Merriam-Webster dictionary"). Victims of slavery are induced into slave-like corruption through deception, force, or coercion. Slaves are subject... to the middle of the card... they were obliged to fulfill. The main purpose of Harriet Jacobs writing ILSG is to attack the specific role that slavery played on African American lifestyles, and also how the institutionalization of slavery allows for degrading behavior that negatively impacts all African Americans. The particular effects of slavery are due to the fact that, once freed, slaves received no reinstatement or any help to adapt to the mainstream of society. Americans should be impartial and stop blaming slavery on white people themselves. Placing blame on a particular group is not the answer because technically we are all Americans. Americans just want to have a better understanding of each other and have a logical and rational dialogue, even if slavery is really unjust, as a result, the fragments of slavery have several limitations to see.