Honesty for Credibility

Pick a passage in which Jacobs is using her own honesty to establish her credibility. Explain how and why she is doing it.

It's difficult to pick just one passage in particular, since throughout the whole book she is using her honesty to establish her credibility. She's a slave, telling a true, horrifying story. She's been there and done and seen those things, so people can believe what she's saying. One of the passages that illustrates this best is when she's describing her situation as being better than others. She's honest enough to explain that hers is a better (definitely not best) case scenario than people who have to toil in the fields. But she also is quick to explain that that's not to say that she's happy, well-treated or in any way okay. She's not being whipped to death- not physically. I can't find the exact passage- but that's basically it. The reader is drawn more to her cause because they sympathize so much with her plight- and to thin it could be worse! She's being honest, and gaining credibility as an author. And she's been there and done that. She's obviously not making this up.