Today our main way of learning about the past is by reading the diaries of who lived during a specific period of time in history. The diaries are primary sources and by reading them we can understand the perspectives of the person and the reactions to the events. I think that many of the responses to slavery by the slave trade were passive, because they didn't know of any other form of life that serve and satisfy the needs of others, while slaves more educated realized that they were beyond to serve others and to work in the fields. Harriet Jacobs was a fifteen years old rural slave. She was not exactly passive in her response to slavery, but she was not exactly active either. In her diary she wrote about how his master whispering things in her ear and of her feelings toward him, she hated her master and he caused her disgust. Harriet did not report the conduct of her master, in her diary she said, "But where I could go for protection?" and more important who would have believe her after all It was her word against that of her master, and he only would have…show more content… In my opinion, by the reading of the entries of the slaves, we can discover the type of work they had to do and how they were treated. This helps us to understand what happened by someone who was actually there. Each group of people had their own points of views and had different things written in their dairies. Because of this we gain knowledge from each side of the story. Harriet Jacobs tells us in her diary how she was treated by his master. In the entry she describes her master as a cruel man. She said that she had nowhere to go to seek for protection. Most of the slaves must have felt this way. It must have been awful lonely. With the side of Harriet diary we can learn her side of the story and learn how slaves were treated and the way in which they feel about their
