ENGLISH 3EE3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: William Wells Brown, Slave Narrative, Psychological Novel
19 Sep 2018
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It"s almost as if he is a domestic servant / domestic. The father drills a hole into a gold piece and puts a string through it he wishes he is actually paid for his duty. The import of a slave auction that dehumanizes the people being. This gold piece is a part of white power, but it is devalued because there is a hole in it. Slave children (the white master who rapes the slave woman, disowns the child and it becomes a slave) the white man got the black woman pregnant and then leaves pound price on him. The coin around his neck represents a physical shackle and shows that he is yoked (string through coin) to this capitalism system that he cannot escape and that his father is a part/ symbol of sold they become property. The boy(cid:495)s value has been devalued by literally putting a 10-
