Passage 4 – from Harriet Jacobs, “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" 1. How does the plight of Harriet Jacobs illustrate the role that class played in the Cult of Domesticity? 2. What principles of the Cult of Domesticity does Jacobs acknowledge in this passage? 3. How does this passage illustrate the role men played in the Cult of Domesticity? 4. How might Jacobs's audience view her decision to become the mistress of an unmarried man? How does she try to shape their judgment of her? 5. Through changes of tone, how does Jacobs try to both appeal to and challenge her audience's preference for women to be submissive?