Harriet’s grandmother had spent a greater deal of time under the teachings of the slave church than had Harriet, and possibly came to believe that it was God’s will for slaves to be content in captive servitude. When Benjamin could not sit with the foul institution, grandmother revealed that her faith and patience did not come from her own goodness, but from the goodness of the Lord who helped her bear her burdens (HJ 27). Benjamin counters grandmother’s beliefs with the revelation that in the midst of toil and despair, a slave “forgets there is a God, a heaven…every thing [sic] in his struggle to get beyond the reach of the bloodhounds” (HJ
Harriet’s grandmother had spent a greater deal of time under the teachings of the slave church than had Harriet, and possibly came to believe that it was God’s will for slaves to be content in captive servitude. When Benjamin could not sit with the foul institution, grandmother revealed that her faith and patience did not come from her own goodness, but from the goodness of the Lord who helped her bear her burdens (HJ 27). Benjamin counters grandmother’s beliefs with the revelation that in the midst of toil and despair, a slave “forgets there is a God, a heaven…every thing [sic] in his struggle to get beyond the reach of the bloodhounds” (HJ