KINDRED
Did you know that during slavery a lot of people didn’t have equal rights like other people in the U.S. except the whites that were legal to be in the U.S. In the book Kindred there are a lot of people who don’t have an equal right except Dana until Rufus bought her and she was his slave and to obey the others of Rufus. The people who didn’t have equal right were Alice, Dana, Nigel, Sarah and other people who were owned by Rufus’s father. so Octavia’s butler’s main point is that slavery was really unfair because not just they were slaves but they did noted any respect of Rufus father if Rufus’s father owned them.
Did you know that during slavery a lot of people didn’t have equal rights like other people in the U.S. except the whites that were legal to be in the U.S. In the book Kindred there are a lot of people who don’t have an equal right except Dana until Rufus bought her and she was his slave and to obey the others of Rufus. The people who didn’t have equal right were Alice, Dana, Nigel, Sarah and other people who were owned by Rufus’s father. so Octavia’s butler’s main point is that slavery was really unfair because not just they were slaves but they did noted any respect of Rufus father if Rufus’s father owned them.
To prove that slavery was unfair an example was when Rufus was a slave owner and he did bad choices during his slave ownership. Rufus was a horrible slave owner because he would hit them to make them work faster, he would kill them, and also he would rape them. Nigel doesn’t know whether Rufus mailed the letter. He says people laughed at Rufus for paying so much for Alice, who was half-dead. Although Nigel wants to try to run away again, he feels grudging gratitude to Rufus, who saved him from being sold south. Dana worries that Rufus will rape Alice again, but he says that would be like hurting a baby. Alice begins to gain awareness of her surroundings and ask questions about her past. This is oppressive because this is not fair for slaves they already being oppressed in many different ways.
In the time of slavery Dana was one example who was oppressed by a slave owner. One way she was oppressed was in the fields she would slow down because she would get tired eventually and the masters or masters would strip her naked and whip her as a punishment. (Page 174) , When Dana awakes, she is bleeding and riding along on the back of Rufus’s horse. He stops, wipes her face, and unties her after she promises not to struggle. He puts her in front of him on the horse. He tells her to lean on him before she falls off, and she does. As they approach the house, Rufus tells her she will be whipped. So they had to work faster to do what they had to do. So Octavia’s message here that when you don’t something that they expect you doing like working faster or doing the work right they punish you in many ways they would whip you or hit you hard and would internal bleeds.
I think slavery is bad because is oppressive and brutal.
So John Brown in an example of how slavery was a change. John Brown believed that slavery was wrong, so he attacked the white people and helped slaves escape but then he got caught helping slaves escape and was hugged for helping the slaves for their freedom. And my reason why i thought slavery was bad because it was brutal and oppressive to black slaves. I disagree with this assertion because it’s not fair that even doe they work for them they still get punished and get whipped.
In conclusion I think that slavery was unfair because back then masters and slave owners were brutal. Also they didn’t give any mercy to anybody. And they did not care how bad they treated the slaves. This should now be clear because I showed you example’s with fact’s and quote’s that showed you that it was clear enough to explain how the situation was back in the days with slavery and all the oppression that has happen all these years.
In the time of slavery Dana was one example who was oppressed by a slave owner. One way she was oppressed was in the fields she would slow down because she would get tired eventually and the masters or masters would strip her naked and whip her as a punishment. (Page 174) , When Dana awakes, she is bleeding and riding along on the back of Rufus’s horse. He stops, wipes her face, and unties her after she promises not to struggle. He puts her in front of him on the horse. He tells her to lean on him before she falls off, and she does. As they approach the house, Rufus tells her she will be whipped. So they had to work faster to do what they had to do. So Octavia’s message here that when you don’t something that they expect you doing like working faster or doing the work right they punish you in many ways they would whip you or hit you hard and would internal bleeds.
I think slavery is bad because is oppressive and brutal.
So John Brown in an example of how slavery was a change. John Brown believed that slavery was wrong, so he attacked the white people and helped slaves escape but then he got caught helping slaves escape and was hugged for helping the slaves for their freedom. And my reason why i thought slavery was bad because it was brutal and oppressive to black slaves. I disagree with this assertion because it’s not fair that even doe they work for them they still get punished and get whipped.
In conclusion I think that slavery was unfair because back then masters and slave owners were brutal. Also they didn’t give any mercy to anybody. And they did not care how bad they treated the slaves. This should now be clear because I showed you example’s with fact’s and quote’s that showed you that it was clear enough to explain how the situation was back in the days with slavery and all the oppression that has happen all these years.
