The four virtues of womanhood

  We have discussed the "Cult of True Womanhood (Domesticity)" in class. Please describe how the social pressure to follow the four virtues of womanhood (Piety, Purity, Submission, and Domesticity) placed an additional burden on enslaved women. Detail how the slave women who effectively resisted reconciled that resistance with the virtues. Book: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs