In the video Slavery and the Making of America I was shocked to learn in detail what slaves had to go through. I can’t imagine how uncomfortable Harriet Ann Jacobs must have felt with her master lusting over her, and with her mistress feeling jealous because of this. It must have been really hard for her to endure. Besides this, I truly admired Harriet’s love for her children. It is true when people say that a mother’s love has no limits, and this was clear for Harriet. She had to take the decision of running away just to save her children, and then, she spent seven years in a space above her grandmother's house, totally isolated, in order to protect them. It was speechless when I learned that if a white man raped a black woman, the law, and
