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The Jealous Mistress
Jacobs describes Mrs. Flint's jealousy and cruelty toward the enslaved women and children in her husband's power, showing how a slaveholding wife's suspicion became its own form of persecution rather than protection.
Mrs. Flint's jealousy and surveillanceEnslaved women blamed for a master's conductDomestic dynamics of a slaveholding householdConcealment within the Flint family