Blog 5
So far my main take away from beloved is that slavery was a horrible life experience which made African Americans suffer so much in life all because of white prejudice. The idea of being a slave made African Americans, not only suffer physically, but also mentally with themselves. A horrendous event is when “Paul D Garner, Paul F Garner, Paul A Garner, Halle Suggs, and Sixo, the wild man. All in their 20s, minus women, fucking cows, dreaming of rape, thrashing on palettes, rubbing their thighs and waiting for the new girl- the one who took Baby Suggs after Halle bought her”(pg 13). While being enslaved thoughts such as having sexual intercourse with animals started to become natural thoughts. Also the thought of them even raping anyone comes sick to anyone mind who realizes it, sadly for them they had no alternative but to think of something which is wrong in all aspects. Acts such as rubbing their thighs would fill their satisfaction due to the lack of pleasure from being enslaved. It would be common sense for a slave to be mentally ill because of the abusement of the white owners. Slaves at a young age would be rapped and beaten with tortured which made them think differently from a stable mind. Them being slaves took away their judgment of what was right and wrong.
This reflect back to me because any human being would know the basics on what is right and what is wrong. Unlike slaves, they had no one or anything to limit their sexual way of thinking. Being enslaved meant no school or any type of education. African Americans basically had to base their choices on their conscious and self beliefs. By this I mean that they would have to make mistakes in order to to understand whether it was the correct choice or not.
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