In her description, Jacobs shows the readers how on the one hand a slave was avenged for his non-compliance and on the other amidst commoditification, dehumanization and degradation a slave exercised his subjectivity in preparing himself to be sold than to surrender to the cruel master hoping to enter a new world.
Jacob significantly describes how the biblical ideology was impinged up on the slaves’ psyche, in the hope to restrict any revolt in the name of Christian morality. She goes beyond it exposing the slaves’ perception of the whites’ hypocrisy:
Jacob significantly describes how the biblical ideology was impinged up on the slaves’ psyche, in the hope to restrict any revolt in the name of Christian morality. She goes beyond it exposing the slaves’ perception of the whites’ hypocrisy: