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I think another interesting aspect of Weld reading was that the "Cruel Mistress" was a very devoutly religious person and was actively Christian. Though this seems to be contradictory, it just shows (as previously mentioned) that slave owners did not view their slaves as people. The Cruel Mistress did not feel that her Christian charity included African Americans, only white people. - F. Cobb | I think another interesting aspect of Weld reading was that the "Cruel Mistress" was a very devoutly religious person and was actively Christian. Though this seems to be contradictory, it just shows (as previously mentioned) that slave owners did not view their slaves as people. The Cruel Mistress did not feel that her Christian charity included African Americans, only white people. - F. Cobb | ||
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| + | I agree with both the points made about “The Cruel Mistress.” I definitely agree about it seeming like a propaganda piece. As Andrea said, Weld probably wasn’t lying, but I think that since she was a Southern expatriate, she certainly could have been spicing up her observations in order to further her cause. I was also stricken by the religious aspect that Weld brings up and agree with the point that F. Cobb makes about the Mistress only thinking of white people as human beings. It seems to me that people are always talking about how God loves everyone equally in church. If this was the case back then, I feel like The Cruel Mistress probably would not have been treating her slaves so harshly. -- Kaitlyn G. | ||
Donald Matthew's Religion in the Old South discusses this idea of the cruel owner, and even the owner in general as a person practicing cruel activities who is so religious, and the hypocrisy. Matthews develops the idea that the slaves are being "saved" and it's the duty of the Southerners, who are in a unique position to be trying to help their slaves, which the North "can't" understand. I think "The Cruel Mistress" fits very nicely with his ideas about how frustrated Southerners were. --A. Meyer | Donald Matthew's Religion in the Old South discusses this idea of the cruel owner, and even the owner in general as a person practicing cruel activities who is so religious, and the hypocrisy. Matthews develops the idea that the slaves are being "saved" and it's the duty of the Southerners, who are in a unique position to be trying to help their slaves, which the North "can't" understand. I think "The Cruel Mistress" fits very nicely with his ideas about how frustrated Southerners were. --A. Meyer | ||
