ENGL 3251H Lecture 8: Lecture 8 - Economies of Slavery (Mar. 7)
10 Mar 2016
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Am i not a man and a brother . Slave sentimentally constructed according to a series of precepts demanding passivity and victimhood. A safe", conventionalized picture of the african" as object of the reader"s self-indulgent pity. The would he say, submissive at thy feet, Whose bounty bought me but to give me light, I was a bondman on my native plain, Sin forged, and ignorance made fast, the chain; Thy lips have shed instruction as the dew, Taught me what path to shun, and what pursue; At my best home, if not exiled from thee. Invite the reader to participate in a sentimental community: appeal to the heart/moral sense of the reader; reason would not succeed. Mary prince: the buckra people who keep slaves think that black people are like cattle, without natural affection. But my heart tells me it is far otherwise . There was a tendency to suggests that slaves do not have sensibility.
