Chapters 12-14
Lying is a common theme. By this section of the book you start to wonder how the blacks went on. Now i know you could wonder that at any stage of their lives but when they have been promised a new life with fertile ground and they get there with nothing of the sort, why even go on. I do not know how they could have believed that life would ever get better. It is sad.
Moving past these details with which Hochschild brings into every chapter, i found Chapter 13 to be extremely interesting as for me it showed the true changing of everything. Sugar on the decline. The movement for me in this chapter became very real. For once people were getting the message that change needed to come and it needed to come now. The fact that these groups were able to get hundreds of thousands of people to stop using sugar in their tea is amazing. I could not agree more with the bottom of 195 "At a time when only a small fraction of the population could vote, citizens took upon themselves the power to act when Parliament had not."
Through chapter 14, Clarkson didn't have the best of times to put it mildly. pg 205. "At another point, after he had remained still for many hours, the ship's doctor pronounced him dead. Crewmen were preparing his body for burial at sea when he stirred." That should be an indication of the severity of diseases that swept the boats on a somewhat regular basis. THe chapter also brought up how respected Clarkson really was.
Moving past these details with which Hochschild brings into every chapter, i found Chapter 13 to be extremely interesting as for me it showed the true changing of everything. Sugar on the decline. The movement for me in this chapter became very real. For once people were getting the message that change needed to come and it needed to come now. The fact that these groups were able to get hundreds of thousands of people to stop using sugar in their tea is amazing. I could not agree more with the bottom of 195 "At a time when only a small fraction of the population could vote, citizens took upon themselves the power to act when Parliament had not."
Through chapter 14, Clarkson didn't have the best of times to put it mildly. pg 205. "At another point, after he had remained still for many hours, the ship's doctor pronounced him dead. Crewmen were preparing his body for burial at sea when he stirred." That should be an indication of the severity of diseases that swept the boats on a somewhat regular basis. THe chapter also brought up how respected Clarkson really was.
posted by RJ at 2/07/2007 07:55:00 PM
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I was thinking the same thing when I was reading that when they arrived at this so called "Promise Land" that there was no an abundance of oysters and fertile land. I probably would have rather been left in England as a slave instead of left to support myself with absolutely no resources. It really makes you wonder why these people were so eager to free the slaves but basically left them at "Granville Town" with nothing to survive. It just is really sad to think about that human beings could be treated this way and then given hope but then it is taken away once again.
Makes me wonder too why Nova Scotia wasn't alloted to blacks--many of whom had fought for these same British during the Revolutionary War. Brit ditty, sung with a glass of port in hand: "This land is my land, this land is my land, from Nova Scotia to the Sierra highlands . . ."
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