. Discuss two scenes in the Jacobs book and two scenes in Amistad where the legal and/or political system reinforced those values.

In your work with Incidents in the LIfe of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and the film Amistad, you have seen how people of African descent in the U.S. were presumed to be slaves and thus encountered greed, brutality and exploitation. Discuss two scenes in the Jacobs book and two scenes in Amistad where the legal and/or political system reinforced those values.

In these scenes discuss also how bravery, self-reliance, persistence and innovation were reinforced by the idealism of American culture and/or crushed by the institution of slavery. In your conclusion (2-3 sentences), discuss which values eventually prevail for those people of African decent in the U.S. up to 1850. Essay should be 2-3 pages long, typed double spaced. i do not have the film Amistad to upload