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If u are indifferent to the reality of slavery, this is not for you

Revisado: 05-12-19

the author was not a field hand, but the daughter of a free black man and slave mother. As such she followed the legal condition of her mother into slavery. But her relatively privileged position as a house slave enabled her to read and give eloquent and passionate expression to the myriad subtle and brutal spirit-crushing realities carelessly taken for granted by her “superior” white masters. The stark and devastating assault on slave family relations through that “peculiar institution,” the terrible vulnerability os slave girls and women in particular, is explored from many angels. The book is filled with ironic passages revealing both the unconscious and inescapable recognition of slaves humanity by their masters, whose psychological rot and brutality is flimsily rationalized in terms of property rights. The author’s indomitable spirit and intellect enabled her to escape bondage along with her children and with the greatly appreciated aid of the defiance and courageous of both races. Should be mandatory reading if u have any interest in US history.

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