Slave Narratives (Blog 2)
After reading a few passages: In the passage about Isaac Mason there was a passage that stated,
“I wonder how I withstood all the abuse and cruelty of these early years. Our lives are largely composed of sorrow and joy, but my cup, it seems to me, has been full to overflowing with sorrow, but God has been my strength and my salvation, and has brought me thus far in the journey of life, and in him I trust, praying that in his good time he will take me to that heavenly home where our earthly trials will cease and where there will be no more sorrow”
I found this passage to be very interesting for many reasons. First, I was unaware that slaves had the knowledge to read and write. I always thought that slaves were imported to the United States to just strictly work. Although, I did know that some slaves wrote poems in which their masters did not favor. I never knew that slaves actually had the intellegence to write stories or autobiographies in this case for Isaac Mason. In the passage I used for this blog it shows how religous slaves were during the period of slavery. I find this extrodinary because, I would assume that slaves lost faith more then gained it because, wouldn’t they think, if god really loved us then why is he allowing us to be treated like slaves and sometimes whipped to death? It is amazing how much slaves look toward religion to help them get through the slavery period and just look foward to dying and being freed from such misery.
I believe this strong faith can teach alot of people a lesson such as, the one that the character Huck Finn is going to learn in the book we are going to read in English class soon. I personally did not know that slaves were capable of so much so, i perdict that Mark Twain makes facts about slaves such as the passage I posted more visable to his readers. I think that Mark twain is going to try to teach Huck as well as his readers to appreciate everyone and find racism ridiculous for existing.
