ENG 250W Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Chaps
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Friday, nov. 3: stowe, uncle tom"s cabin, chaps. The narrator introduces two slave women in the warehouse, susan and. Emmeline, a mother and her beautiful daughter of fifteen. Emmeline has wondrously curly hair, but her mother combs it all out flat, in the hope that she will look less attractive and not be noticed by men who are buying female slaves for their pleasure. Trying to make her less attractive so she won"t be purchased. This is an interesting contrast to today- curly hair on black women is just now becoming to be embraced and seen as attractive- before black women were trying to straighten their hair. Before the women are brought to the selling-block, however, the seller tells. Emmeline to go curl her hair such an enhancement could bring in an extra hundred dollars. Uncle tom now comes up for sale also.
