Incidents in the Life of a slave Girl Response

In my opinion, it is very important that this book is true and not fiction for many reasons. The most obvious reason that it is important that this book is true and not false is that it helps to show us what slavery was truly like. I believe that it is incredibly important for us to understand the hardships and profanity that slaves were accustomed to dealing with. If the author did not right the book truthfully we would fully comprehend slavery and the issues that slavery brought about. For example, when we hear about the author's issues with her master involving their relationship it helps to further her appeal to pathos. The fact that this actually happens helps to make the reader emotionally invested into the book. 

I think that it is important that the author did not clean up the language and content because it furthers the appeal to the reader. By writing the truth it allows the reader to understand the harshness of the slave world. It is very important to understand what actually happened during this time so that we do not relive it, we must learn from our mistakes and in order to do that we must know what actually happened and we can not sugar coat it to make it appear better than it actually was.