Chapters 3/4

Society will never change. They say that it takes a change in government to take a few years society is truly a few decades as they never get over what has happened to realize what is happening. Page 51 proves this to me. The black girl, Dido, illegitimate to the family, was an outcast in her own home. It is astonishing, at the point of this passage the author has commented on the fact that slavery has been ruled as illegal however the confusion of the dinner guests as to why a black girl could come sit down with the others and be able to walk with the women into the gardens does not sit well with anyone. It is never questioned, nothing further from mind, that perhaps the child is perhaps their own.
A continuation of the ideas mentioned in the previous chapter really surface once again on page 51 where the blacks and animals are put on the same social level. Padlocks, outrageous. these few individuals who were openly against slavery noted at the end of chapter 3 go to stand for the idea that it only takes a few for a lot of change to occur.

The dichotomy between England and Jamaica pointed out in the early stages of chapter 4 paints the deteriorating picture of Britian with the words more than it does the lavishness of Jamaica. Such accounts uncomprehensible to the English jsut shows how economically depressed their society was.

The Caribbean slave operation comes across as totally different from that of the British as the Caribbeans were constantly working to keep the slave population under control. To me this is a reality that the slaves had the numbers however they lacked communication means as well as the organization to have an uprising without help. It is interesting to see where others come to the needs of the slaves.