AF AMER 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Steady Ground, Hybridity, Harriet Ann Jacobs
23 Aug 2016
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Harriet jacobs: sexuality and how they experienced violence about motherhood and sexuality. Talks about vulnerability black woman have to the slave owner enters 15th year. Violation of virtue, by the way he talks to her, no respectability. Subject to his will of all thingswhere could i turn for protectionthe mistressjealously and rage. Sign of being mix contentious as far as a mistress being considered. White looking slave could encore lots of rath. Why didn"t the slaves fight back, she explains that in 1831 revolt happened, they were punished and executed enormous wave of violence in the south. Insurrection amongst slave was punished on a scale that"s hard to envision. Describes a must for every year, recreated on revolutionary war, the nustar used as an opportunity to manipulate the poor whites. Use witness to instill complicity amongst poor whites. Describes how poor whites manipulated to give terror to the blacks in community. Grand opportunity for the white, exercise brief authority.
