Running A Thousand Miles From Freedom: The Victimization Of Women In Slavery

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the master (Ellen) was traveling to Philadelphia for medical reasons. They traveled through Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland before they reached Philadelphia on Christmas day. At one point while traveling, Ellen was seated next to a friend of her owner, who knew her from childhood. To 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 she chooses suicide as her eventual humiliation and betrayal after she finally yields or is worn ...

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