Chapter 9-11

Hochschild likes to make the reader work at what he is really saying. The broad examination of the text provides good clues as to what is going on but the struggle between characters and within characters is only apparent when you take a deeper look at what they are really trying to say.
Chapter 9 for me was one of the best chapters in my opinion as it time and time again took familiar faces and flipped them upside down, distorting my views of previously established characters. Early in the chapter he one again brings up the ever tormented idea of happiness of the slaves and juxtaposes it to the mistreatment of the slaves by saying that you cannot force happiness on people. That provided an interesting twist to how we have always looked at the situation. This chapter also shines a new light on Newton whom now comes to confession.

Chapter 10 pointed out that London was in trouble. "but Blacks needed jobs that London didn't have" p 148. This whole idea of betting the blacks life that is carried through chapter 11 really overlooks how much in shambles the London economy really is. They have to many problems to move forward with. War, unrest within their country, everything that is going on does not lead to a prosperous growth. The slaves to me are the backbone of the society. While they were not making money they were picking up slack in the system and producing heavily to increase efficiency and lower prices, when the blacks/slaves are taken out of the picture the cost of making a good goes up exponentially because they now have to pay for the labor.