Chapters 1-4

Jacobs presents slavery as it really was. It's incredibly powerful because she tells it from her point of view instead of making an avatar and making up a story akin to hers. Her view is very broad because she can relate it to other slaves and can talk about how it was for other slaves but it's an individual story because she saw it all first hand. She shows the sacrifices the slave had to make while in slavery to attain freedom or just to have some fake sense of happiness. Jacobs is also honest with everything and she isn't going to lie about anything she did. She is going to tell the truth so that people can see what she went through. Jacobs admits she didn't like sharing all the harsh things she went though, but it was necessary for the good of the story.