When analyzing both narratives, it’s increasingly apparent that Jacobs views freedom as familial, this is made clear on page 86 of her narrative in which she states, “I could have made my escape alone; but it was more for my helpless children than for myself that I longed for freedom.” Freedom in its essence is understood by Jacobs to be raw humanity, the ability to feel and to do so without boundaries. Her interpretation mimics that of the modern day concept of radical love and one’s’ ability to embody that in a way that contributes to how they move about their daily life. This differs greatly from what Douglass assumed freedom to be, and that is to be rooted in literacy and acquired knowledge, he thought of the ability to read and write as revolutionary and freedom to be individualistic in that one can only obtain true freedom if they conformed to what we now perceive to be a formal
When analyzing both narratives, it’s increasingly apparent that Jacobs views freedom as familial, this is made clear on page 86 of her narrative in which she states, “I could have made my escape alone; but it was more for my helpless children than for myself that I longed for freedom.” Freedom in its essence is understood by Jacobs to be raw humanity, the ability to feel and to do so without boundaries. Her interpretation mimics that of the modern day concept of radical love and one’s’ ability to embody that in a way that contributes to how they move about their daily life. This differs greatly from what Douglass assumed freedom to be, and that is to be rooted in literacy and acquired knowledge, he thought of the ability to read and write as revolutionary and freedom to be individualistic in that one can only obtain true freedom if they conformed to what we now perceive to be a formal