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This was a really touching account and accounts by slaves themselves were very rare. I was surprised at how much money she was worth and by the fact that Mr. Hawkins bought both parents with her. I was also surprised at her tone, she was simply telling a story rather than taking every opportunity to complain. I guess compared to her first master, Mr. Hawkins was a slave’s dream in some cases. Reading a first hand account of what was so common a thing makes what we learned in class much more real and sad… -- Emma C. | This was a really touching account and accounts by slaves themselves were very rare. I was surprised at how much money she was worth and by the fact that Mr. Hawkins bought both parents with her. I was also surprised at her tone, she was simply telling a story rather than taking every opportunity to complain. I guess compared to her first master, Mr. Hawkins was a slave’s dream in some cases. Reading a first hand account of what was so common a thing makes what we learned in class much more real and sad… -- Emma C. | ||
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| + | This story was truly sad to read. I can't imagine living the life a slave did, being forced into doing things they didn't want to do and having to accept it because that was considered the norm. Poor Rose was so excited and thought her "Massa" was doing her a favor when he bought her whole family;however, his underlying motive for purchasing her was purely economic. He saw her has the ideal way to make more money by having her produce more slaves. How could these white masters truly not care about their slaves at all? I couldn't imagine being forced into having a child with someone I didn't love, just to face the possibility that my child may get sold to another slave owner, or that I could be sold to someone else once I got older and wasn't able to produce anymore children. Every person deserves to be happy or at the very least have a chance at happiness- for Rose, she never had that opportunity. After she was freed she never wanted to get married or be in a relationship with any man, which shows how much of an emotional and psychological toll her master's organized rape and childbirth played on her. --Lindsey S. | ||
== Lucinda, a free woman, requests reenslavement, 1813 == | == Lucinda, a free woman, requests reenslavement, 1813 == | ||
