It was too hard for me to pick just one passage in which Jacobs uses honesty and her experience to establish her credibility, so I decided to choose all of chapter 15 (pgs68-73.) This chapter is a disturbing one, in which Dr. Flint, still upset with Linda for having children with another white man, tortures Linda by saying horrible things about selling her children for good prices and reminding her that she is her property and always will be. When Linda's son tried to protect her, Dr. Flint threw him across the room and wouldn't let her go to him. I think this chapter really shows the cruelty of slavery.
Jacobs is showing credibility here by telling something that actually happened to her. She shows the horrible and abusive side of slavery, she went through all of it and knows what it is like. She knows that it needs to end. And real-life experiences are always powerful. She is telling this story to try and get people to understand how bad slavery is and to instill the desire to put an end to it.
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