Harriet Jacobs Concept Of Family

Back in the 1960s many people believed in a theory that set the slaves to be seen as impassive human beings. There was a big portion of people that saw African Americans as animals and property. It was a very tragic time for people of different color to not be able to be free but some like Harriet Jacobs always knew what family meant to her. I argue that Harriet Jacobs’ accounts shows that slaves have a concept of family because her relationships with her grandmother, brother, and the affect she has towards her father clearly show a family love. Harriet Jacobs’ is well aware of the concept of what family is because of the way she felt when her father died. Her father died so sudden she thought she should be allowed to go to her father’s house the next morning, but was ordered to go for flowers, that her mistress's house might be decorated for an evening party. She spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them into festoons, while the dead body of my father was lying within a mile of me. Jacobs’ felt the need to pay her respects to her father, even though they weren’t close as she was with her grandmother. Harriet showing sympathy for her father shows that she cared for him in a way that shows family love.