During the age of slavery many people felt there was nothing to live for. Many African Americans, both enslaved and free, struggles to live a basic happy life. While slavery affected all African American lives, women had something to protect: the family. During the age of slavery, what mattered most to African American women was their family and they fought to achieve it by rebelling, each in their own unique way.
In Erica Armstrong Dunbar's Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge, Ona Judge rebelled by running away so that she would be able to have freedom for her future children.
The rebellion of Harriet Jacobs started at a young age. Jacobs realized she was able to use her grandmother as a way …show more content…
Harriet's grandmother was able to protect her family at all cost and Harriet had no problem using that against her owner. Another way Jacobs was able to rebel was by getting pregnant by another man to avoid the sexual advance of her owner. Harriet Jacobs notes," "Of a man who was not my master [Mr. Sands] I could ask to have my children well supported; and in this case, I felt confident I should obtain the boon. I also felt quite sure that they would be made free. With all these thoughts revolving in my mind, and seeing no other way of escaping the doom I so much dreaded, I made a headlong plunge." In this passage, Jacobs is carefully coming up with the possibility of her children being freed, if she has children with Mr. Sands, and her truly having a chance at motherhood. The significance of this mother subjected her body to a man just to get away from another man is enormous. She was sure to make her future children the center of decision. One significant way …show more content…
These acts included running away, and killing her own children. In the act of running away, Garner was attempting to get her family out of slavery any way possible. Author, Nikki Taylor, states, "As they crossed the frozen Ohio River, the Garners shed their slave status and put on their mantle of freedom. The younger couple decided to assume new names, which served the triple functions of hiding their real identities, distancing themselves from their enslaved pasts, and claiming new destinies on free soil." This is an important part of the rebellion because this was the start of a downpour of events. This particular part of the text is significant because they reached freedom. This family was able to get a taste of how life was as a free person. Margaret Garner was successful in goal of getting her family out of slavery. Unfortunately, the Garners were found, and this led on to Margaret killing one of her children. Nikki Taylor states, "She decided to use deadly violence, as well. Grabbing a butcher knife from a counter she rushed toward her children, grabbing two-year-old Mary and declaring, 'Before my children shall be taken back to Kentucky I will kill every one of them!' While the men were trying to keep the posse from gaining entrance, Margaret snatched up two-year-old Mary and quickly cut her throat, right to left." This is an extremely significant part of the book
In Erica Armstrong Dunbar's Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge, Ona Judge rebelled by running away so that she would be able to have freedom for her future children.
The rebellion of Harriet Jacobs started at a young age. Jacobs realized she was able to use her grandmother as a way …show more content…
Harriet's grandmother was able to protect her family at all cost and Harriet had no problem using that against her owner. Another way Jacobs was able to rebel was by getting pregnant by another man to avoid the sexual advance of her owner. Harriet Jacobs notes," "Of a man who was not my master [Mr. Sands] I could ask to have my children well supported; and in this case, I felt confident I should obtain the boon. I also felt quite sure that they would be made free. With all these thoughts revolving in my mind, and seeing no other way of escaping the doom I so much dreaded, I made a headlong plunge." In this passage, Jacobs is carefully coming up with the possibility of her children being freed, if she has children with Mr. Sands, and her truly having a chance at motherhood. The significance of this mother subjected her body to a man just to get away from another man is enormous. She was sure to make her future children the center of decision. One significant way …show more content…
These acts included running away, and killing her own children. In the act of running away, Garner was attempting to get her family out of slavery any way possible. Author, Nikki Taylor, states, "As they crossed the frozen Ohio River, the Garners shed their slave status and put on their mantle of freedom. The younger couple decided to assume new names, which served the triple functions of hiding their real identities, distancing themselves from their enslaved pasts, and claiming new destinies on free soil." This is an important part of the rebellion because this was the start of a downpour of events. This particular part of the text is significant because they reached freedom. This family was able to get a taste of how life was as a free person. Margaret Garner was successful in goal of getting her family out of slavery. Unfortunately, the Garners were found, and this led on to Margaret killing one of her children. Nikki Taylor states, "She decided to use deadly violence, as well. Grabbing a butcher knife from a counter she rushed toward her children, grabbing two-year-old Mary and declaring, 'Before my children shall be taken back to Kentucky I will kill every one of them!' While the men were trying to keep the posse from gaining entrance, Margaret snatched up two-year-old Mary and quickly cut her throat, right to left." This is an extremely significant part of the book