This would be Jacobs assume name for her autobiographical narrative
"I was born a slave, but I never knew till six years of happy childhood had passed away" (Jacobs)
Jacobs describes her experience as a slave in first person perspective
Within this quote she classifies herself as a "slave" when combined with her first person narrative this relates to the theme of a slave narrative
Jacobs’s theme of slave narrative is associated by her being from mulatto ancestry
“On her death bed her mistress promised that her children should never suffer for anything and during her lifetime she kept her word. They all spoke kindly of my dead mother, who had been a slave merely to name, but in nature was noble and womanly"(Jacobs)
With her light completion and how greatly she was treated by her first mistress this may have greatly impacted her throughout her life
Jacobs describes her tragically unique slave narrative with examples that are very direct
Using analysis she describes the events that occurred in her lifetime