I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks. It makes
white fathers cruel and sensual; the sons violent and licentious; it contaminates the daughters, and makes the wives wretched. And as for the colored race, it needs an abler pen than mine to describe the extremity of their sufferings, the depth of their degradation.________
― Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Explanation:
This is a piece of Literature that also works as resistance in the Anti-Slavery Movement. Harriet Ann shows this by describing how she was a victim of Dr. Flint's sexual harassment and the desperation that came alongside her actions. She shows how Dr. Flint's wife was embittered and unhappy by knowing that her husband was a philanderer, knowing that there wasn't anything to be done.
"(...)it contaminates the daughters, and makes the wives wretched".
Jacobs also writes that this is a recurring phenomenon because sons learn from seeing their father's actions, that abusing their female slaves is an acceptable norm; that it's natural.
"(...) makes white fathers cruel and sensual; the sons violent and licentious"
she sees Romeo as one dead in the bottom of a tomb. What vision does Juliet have as Romeo is leaving? Juliet's mother, Lady Capulet, comes to visit with her early that morning. Who comes to visit with Juliet early that morning
