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This 5 page paper discusses this book at length and gives a detailed analysis of the story. This book is a story about black slaves during the colonial period of the United States. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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slavery by examining the black plantation foremen of the South. These men, while black, identified with the blacks whom they supervised and even bonded with them. This book
further suggests that these foremen did not agree with the white planters who mistreated the blacks, but, were able to coexist comfortably within both groups .
Obviously, these were difficult roles for the foremen seeing as they had to supervise other blacks and yet still had to maintain the favor
of the white owners (Van Deburg). But, according to this book, that was not a problem for these men and many of the myths associated with this position are
refuted in this book (Van Deburg). During the early, colonial years in America, black slaves were considered subhuman and destined
for a fate of servitude based on their inherent inequality (Slavery). This was the view of many of the whites at that time who owned slaves (Slavery). Even
churches at the time made no attempt to try and intervene on behalf of the slaves (Slavery). In fact, many people of religion convinced themselves that the fate of
the black slaves was indeed Gods will as retribution for some evil which they had committed (Slavery). Many of the slaves who came to this country came from
a part of Africa called the Sudan. There were other areas too where slaves originated but none so big as the Sudan. These native Africans worked their land
extremely well and were therefore prized as people who could be gathered and then sold to work the land of white Americans. Slavery was prevalent the world over
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