Harriet Jacobs: Flight of Liberty

Movie Proposal
Who is Harriet Jacobs?
● Childhood
○ Shows the naive of children, and how they are blinded
by wanting affection. This later leads Harriet down a
road of later misfortunes and realizations of what life
of a slave really is….
● Goals overall
○ Goal is to achieve awareness to people everywhere of
all demographics, the struggles of living as a slave.
○ “You will see and hear things that will seem to you
impossible among human beings…”
“I went forth into the night and rain.

I ran on until came to the house of

a friend who was to conceal me.”

How did she affect the abolitionist
movement?

● The Abolitionist movement

○ She was among the few who were able to read, write,
and go to church among white citizens. This shows
that African Americans could achieve freedom and
citizenship and to live among whites.
● The shock factor
○ Concepts of living in a sheltered world that is revealed
that it is not all that it seems to be….
What makes her important?

● Her life as a slave

● Her most impactful piece
○ “The slaveholders sons are of course, vitiated, even while boys, by the
unclean influences everywhere around them. Nor do the masters
daughters always escape.”

● Resistance to slavery
Why is she still so effective today?
● Use of texts and religion
● Argument Strategy
“If you want to be fully convinced
of the abominations of slavery,
go on a southern plantation and
call yourself a negro trader. Then
there will be no concealment,
and you will see and hear things
that will seem to you impossible
among human beings with
immortal souls.” - Harriet Jacobs