Difference between revisions of "HIST 131--Week 11 Questions/Comments"
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I noticed in the very begining of the article, Barrow talks about the Driver. Who is that? I also noticed that when he began his long paragraph on page 244, Barrow states that "[negro's] are always liable to my call without questioning for a moment." This means that the slaves need to be ready for him to call at any moment and they must come no matter what. I found it funny how in the remaining paragraph, he tries to justify that by saying things like if there is a fire, if the slaves are not at his beck and call, there could be serious losses. -Kristina Scrimshaw | I noticed in the very begining of the article, Barrow talks about the Driver. Who is that? I also noticed that when he began his long paragraph on page 244, Barrow states that "[negro's] are always liable to my call without questioning for a moment." This means that the slaves need to be ready for him to call at any moment and they must come no matter what. I found it funny how in the remaining paragraph, he tries to justify that by saying things like if there is a fire, if the slaves are not at his beck and call, there could be serious losses. -Kristina Scrimshaw | ||
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| + | It's interesting how the slave holders played psychological games to keep the slaves, "you must therefore make him as comfortable at Home as possible...you must provide for him Your self and be that means creat in him a habit of perfect dependence on you." The slave holders make this relationship so the slaves aren't to think they are there against their will but because they need the owner to function, which i'm pretty sure didn't work because they did have the run aways and small rebellions. Maybe the slave owners were making themselves think they were fooling the slaves of dependency? Lauren Hicks | ||
== Nat Turner – from ''Confessions of Nat Turner'', 1831 == | == Nat Turner – from ''Confessions of Nat Turner'', 1831 == | ||
