Harriet Jacobs: Film Analysis

My reaction to part 3 of this film is very different from the previous films because this one is much more brutal and there was so much going on. The whole film kind of revolved around the life of Harriet Jacobs who in the 1850s was the first woman to write a slave narrative and reveal the awful truth of slavery and although it was legal to teach slaves to read and write, her first owner taught her. What was significant about her story to me was when she talked about how “beauty was a curse”. No matter if your dark skin or light skin if you had beauty it would be a weapon against you because then your master would come after you. Being raped and constantly sexually assaulted by your master was no only crazy, perverted, and dehumanizing but it was normal and considered legal back then and that is what disturbs me the most. Not to mention her master had eleven other slave children, where he would just sell …show more content…
Cotton was the key crop and the key cash producer. In 1808 congress abolished the importation of slaves from Africa, but this was a blessing and a curse because this happened just as the need for more slave labor increased. It flourished the slave trade which ripped tons of families apart, destroyed many slaves physically and mentally, and sent them to work in the deep south all because it made the slaves more profitable. My reaction to this was heartbreaking because you see men getting taking away form their wives and kids who will never seeing their parents again. It was said that millions of people were brought to the Deep South, many marches the entire distance in shackles, at that. That entire part of the film was just unbelievable, I could not even imagine being in their position and enduring that kind of pain and suffering. Slavery definitely demanded a self-reliant, do everything to protect yourself, while maintaining strength and resilience kind of