Religion of Harriet Jacobs

Harriet Jacobs and I shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same essay. She was a 19th century slave girl, who for which nothing went right. I am the privileged son of a doctor getting one of the best educations possible four months from the 21st century. We have only one thing in common: a Christian Faith passed down from our families. In fact, Harriet Jacobs and I have an amazingly similar relationship with our …

…startlingly similar role. In our respective lives, it dictates the same decisions in our lives. Its influence in our lives is so similar that we even have the same love-hate relationship with it. We approach it until it convicts us and tells us to do something that we might not be quite ready for. Somehow, though, we know that this little thing we call faith is right, and in the end we will follow it.