Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl First response

The importance that Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is defined as truth rather than fiction is because of what the overall story is about. This story is about an African- American slave thus it would only defeat the purpose of the book to make up things that would depict a horrible act in history. Then there is the fact that the editor didn’t clean up the book in terms of both language and content. The reason why I believe he did that was to almost make the book more realistic in terms of how it should of sounded to the main character when they went through it. Which is how it should be, the book should be as close to truth as possible and with the way the book is written, it is easy to feel the main points of the book by reading it in this fashion.