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Running a Thousand Miles from Freedom: The Victimization of Women In Slavery
Ellen Craft was born to Maria, a slave and her owner, Major James Smith, in Clinton, Georgia. At a young age, Ellen was separated from her mother (Craft 2). In Running a Thousand Miles from Freedom, William Craft states “that the me ....
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.... avoid him, she looked out of the window and played deaf (Craft 43).
Even though Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom highlights the victimization of females in slavery, it is told from a male’s prospective. It also only touches the surface of the condition. Harriet Jacobs allows readers to see the condition from the female point of view. Giving insight about how male slave narrators dealt with the exploitation of female slaves, William Andrews states that “their emphasis is on the woman’s repugnance at the master’s advances, the futility of her continued resistance unless sh ....
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