HTST 465 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Open Marriage, Henry Bibb
9 Oct 2016
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Morality rate for slaved children were horrifc he talks about being hungry most of the time, having lack of comfort material. His wife who was not able to help her baby survive. She never escapes , difficult to run away with a child. Has slaveholder"s blood in his veins: there could be coercion in this sense. His father could have been a known politicians who is in power of the coercion. You could be sold around in the slave trade. They developed a distinctive culture that wasn"t understood by masters. Trans atlandtic slave trade: we used to imagine people were brought from all over the place. The trauma of slave trade destroyed cultural systems; diff language, religion, ways of eating etc. In slavery, they had to learn a whole new system. One is the emergence of a distinctive language along the rice coast called gullah. Languages related in africa, combined with english world.
