“You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him,” this quote is from Booker T. Washington about slavery. In class we read two passages that was about slavery the first passage was about “An Account from the Slave Trade: Love Story of Jeffrey and Dorcas” and the other passage was about “Wesley Harris: An Account of Escaping Slavery.” We have to compare Jeffery and Harris about how are they alike and different. In these passages it talks about how Jeffery was brave to receive help from white slave owners and when you are a slave you can’t just walk up to a slave owner to help you because it can go badly because Jeffery wanted his new slave owner to buy his betrothed. In the other passage it talks about how Harris was brave because he was …show more content…
The only way to stay a life as a slave mean you have to be brave in order to survive.
Jeffery and Harris had many things in common. Jeffery and Harris are both slaves with white slave owners. Jeffery and Harris also was desperate for something. Jeffery was desperate because he wanted his new slave owner to buy his betrothed ( his love) because they was in love with each other so Jeffery told all the good thing about his betrothed (his love). Jeffery told his new master “that Dorcas (Jeffery love one) had long arms, strong, healthy, and can do a heap of work in a day.” Harris was desperate because he wanted to be a free man not a slave. Harris made a escape plane to Gettysburg. Jeffery and Harris are both brave. Jeffery was brave because he received help for slave owners tell them to go in tell his new slave owner to buy Dorcas. This was brave because slaves can not go up to