500-700 Word Analysis: 'Therapeutic Voice In Harriet Jacobs'

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Each team will write and post a 500--700 word analysis that addresses the following question: How does Harriet Jacobs develop either the antislavery voice or the therapeutic voice in this chapter?
Anti-slavery voice- When he rejected that man from buying Jacobs, he made it seem like he was doing a righteous thing saying that she wasn’t his to sell. In reality, he had an ulterior motive. He didn’t reject the man because he was a righteous man with morals and respect for his sister “property.” He rejected the man because he suspected that the man was Jacobs’s lover and he swore to never let her escape from his grasp, “You are mine; and you shall be fir life. There lives no human being that can take you out of your slavery”. He has no reason to keep Jacobs. He just keeping her because he knows it makes her miserable. He knows that the freedom of her children is what she really wants, but he’s denying her of that too. His actions are because of his own selfish desires. This shows how …show more content…

For once the crushed Rose was the conqueror.” This quote gives off the sense of healing because it reminds Jacobs that they did have some wins, as slaves. They were able to heal from the bad times they had with their master and conquer them. Rose was miserable when she was with Dr. Flint. When she left she was happy. When he returned she had her first victory. She defied him and couldn’t get in trouble for it. He set himself up. He was the one who sold her. The process of slavery backfired on him. She was no longer his slave, and so he could not control her. Rose gave hope towards a new future. She was proof of a future where they wouldn’t have to leave just because another human being said so. They could make their own decisions in their own house. Rose was therapeutic for Jacobs because she defied Dr. Flint in a way that Jacobs couldn’t. Her defiance gave her

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