Although, as a slave girl her experiences are far different from Frederick’s experience in slavery as a slave man. From her experience, she reveals how young slave girls experienced lots of sexual harassment from their masters. In the documentary Slavery in the Making of America’s “Seeds of Destruction,” an excerpt of Harriet’s narrative discusses how “no matter what slave girl looks like dark, light, medium if she’s attractive it’s a curse because the master will be after her” (Slavery). Essentially displaying the psychological struggles young slave girls endured as their masters’ men far older than them preyed on them sexually. Yet, never seeing herself as a victim instead seeing her predator master as an enemy Harriet demonstrates the strong willed nature African Americans had to still continue to fight no matter the
Although, as a slave girl her experiences are far different from Frederick’s experience in slavery as a slave man. From her experience, she reveals how young slave girls experienced lots of sexual harassment from their masters. In the documentary Slavery in the Making of America’s “Seeds of Destruction,” an excerpt of Harriet’s narrative discusses how “no matter what slave girl looks like dark, light, medium if she’s attractive it’s a curse because the master will be after her” (Slavery). Essentially displaying the psychological struggles young slave girls endured as their masters’ men far older than them preyed on them sexually. Yet, never seeing herself as a victim instead seeing her predator master as an enemy Harriet demonstrates the strong willed nature African Americans had to still continue to fight no matter the