Harriet ann Jacobs Paper

Write a three to five page, double-spaced essay on one of the issues below. You do not need a title page. Please put your name and the question number in the upper left-hand corner of the paper. When you quote from the book, use quotation marks correctly and place the page number of the quote after the quote in parentheses.

1. “He that is willing to be a slave, let him be a slave.” (32) How is Harriet’s life the antithesis of this (the opposite of this)?
2. In your opinion which is the stronger theme in Jacobs’s work, the oppression of slavery or the oppression of patriarchy (i.e., male dominance of a female)?
3. Much of the story hinges upon control and power over another human being. But this is not always the white master in control of his helpless black slave woman. At one point in the story Harriet manages to reverse the control to her advantage. Discuss how the most powerless figure in Edenton, North Carolina, could become one of the most powerful.
4. Racism predominates in nearly all of Harriet’s relationships, both during her years as a slave and during her time living as a free person in the North.