What is her goal in writing her story?

Describe Harriet’s life as a slave in the city:
    What does she experience there that she might not on a plantation?
    What are the advantages/disadvantages of living in a city?
    What type of information does she have access to?

What types of jobs do slave women have in Harriet’s tale?
    List them.
    Who had more power and why?

What is Jacob’s relationship with her mother and father?
Why is she living in her grandmother’s house?
What position does her grandmother hold in the community?

Who is Dr. Flint and what is his relationship, legal and personal, w/ Harriet?

Who is Harriet’s first love?  Why can’t she marry him?

Why does Harriet choose to have two children with Mr. Sands?

Describe the steps Harriet takes to avoid Dr. Flint.
How does she judge the nature of her sexual impropriety?
Why does she suggest that black women should not be judged by the same standards as white women?

What was the Nat Turner rebellion?
Why was Harriet’s grandmother spared from the terror that followed it?

When Harriet runs away to Philadelphia and New York, what type of discrimination does she experience?  How does she explain it?

Why doesn’t Harriet reunite with her children in New York?

Describe the impact of the Fugitive Slave Law on runaway slaves in the north?

Why is it dangerous for Harriet to run away?