AF AMER 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Negative Liberty
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There should be an acceptable form between slave and master - twisted logic. Jacobs theorizes being an object of property. Her grandmother loaning money to mistress, mistress never paid back. The honor of a slaveholder to a slave . Slavery was a reflection of the natural hierarchy of the races . Slavery is a perversion of the natural order - what jacobs argues. The way that slavery is justified by southerners. Logic of slavery is that slave owners are helping slaves. Way jacobs characterizes her experience of being property. Jacobs never wished for freedom until dr. flint. Shows us that there is no humane form of slavery even when cruel physical punishment is involved. When her mistress died, she still wanted to be free. Despite being the object of love and affection, she is still being treated as property. No good way for people to be turned into property.
