Equiano was from Africa in a peaceful village were the British kidnapped him into the slave trade. He was kidnapped with his sister and dragged away from their home. A lot of the whites would just go into villages and start taking African Americans to be their slaves or to trade them
As the “Narrative” continues, so does Mrs. Auld’s transformation. Douglass begins chapter VI by stating that Mrs. Auld had never had a slave of her own and before her marriage had “been dependent upon her own industry”(page 32). He goes on to claim that because of this Mrs. Auld had been “preserved from the blighting and dehumanizing effects of slavery” (page 32). As the chapter goes on Douglass describes in more and more detail the kindness and gentleness of his new mistress. She teaches Douglass his A B Cs and began to teach him words until her husband becomes aware of this abnormal treatment and thus bringing about Mrs. Auld’s transformation from a sweet and caring woman to a cruel and cold slave owner.
Comparison Between The Book of Negroes and The Color Purple The Book of Negroes is a novel about a woman named Aminata Diallo and her journey to freedom. She is brought to America via the slave trade and uses her midwifery, reading and writing skills to help cope with her situation and gain freedom. The story is told from the point of view of Aminata Diallo in her later years. She looks back at her journey to freedom and the people whom she loved and lost along the way. The book deals with various themes such as discrimination, separation, slavery, oppression and survival.
Jubilee by Margret walker is a novel on the story of vyry a slave who since a child went through many struggles starting with the death of het mother and beging her life journey when forced to move into the " bug house" with her biological father. Miss Salina, Master Dutton’s wife, doesn’t like Vyry because since Vyry is also Dutton’s daughter, Vyry looks as if she could be twins with Lillian, who is Salina’s daughter. Dutton isn’t that hateful towards his slaves. He has conversations with them and everything and there’s this occasion where Vyry forgets to throw out something that Lillian used to pee during the night so Salina throws it on Vyry and another times Vyry is being punished by being hanged by her thumbs in a closet and John Dutton comes and he takes Vyry out of there and he gets mad at Salina. While Vyry is in the Big House, she works with Aunt Sally in the kitchen.
Harriet Jacobs’ Narrative "I want to add my testimony to that of abler pens to convince the people of the Free States what slavery really is. Only by experience can any one realize how deep, and dark, and foul is that pit of abominations." After nearly seven years hiding in a storeroom crawlspace above her grandmother’s home, Harriet Ann Jacobs took a step that other slaves dared to dream. She secretly boarded a boat in Edenton, N.C., bound for Philadelphia, New York; eventually she reunited with her children and gained freedom. This young slave woman’s fight and faith were written in her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, self-published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent.
As a result, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl occupies a crucial place in the history of American women's literature in general and African American women's literature in particular. Published in the North, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl proved that until slavery was overthrown, only expatriate southern women writers, such as Jacobs and her contemporary, Angelina Grimke Weld, who left South Carolina to speak out against slavery in the South, could write freely about social problems in the
First, her own family abandons and leaves her. This causes her to find a new family: a family of “Shvartses”. Finally, she is driven into a whole other religion, a religion completely different and hated by her original family and self. In the novel The Color of Water, Ruth’s life was a contrast between her roots and the rest of her life. Ruth first begins to change when she leaves for New York.
Why us men and women. Where do children really come from. It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing...The more I wonder, he say, the more I love. (p. 289) Celie is developing a friendship with Mr. _____, but she can never love a man again and believes that love will never be back in her life. But then her sister Nettie returns from Africa with her two children.
Enrique’s reuniting with Lourdes is a painful and wrenching adjustment process, and it takes years for them to reach a comfortable relationship with one another (though the wounds of their separation never heal). The story of Lourdes’ daughter Belky provides some hope that Lourdes’ efforts were not in vain: Belky finished school and has good prospects in Honduras. Enrique faces his own version of Lourdes’ struggle, as he learns that the girlfriend he left behind when he went to find his mother was pregnant with their daughter, and he must decide whether to try and save enough to go back or to bring them both
One of things that were mentioned is “the heartless and ghastly form of slavery rises between mother and child.” Pg 45 Slaves were separated since the moment they were born, they did not get be around their parents and bond as other kids do. “The bondwoman lives as a slave, and is left to die as a beast.” “By the laws of slavery, children, in all cases are reduced to the condition of their mothers.” Pg 46 “This arrangement admits of the greatest license of brutal slaveholders , and their profligate sons, brothers, relations and friends, and gives pleasure of sin, the additional attraction of profit” pg46 It seems like they were dead to all sense of humanity the slaves were fighting for survival that was impossible. They were suffering from immoral economic advantages due to the slave owners and that caused the entire community to suffer by accepting what others believed was right. Everyone was victimized due to their human life and dignity it damaged society spiritually and morally. It made some slave holders and their overseers brutal, it made other white people feel guilty and ashamed.