THE SLAVE SHIP The Slave Ship is one of the most strong acknowledgments of the violent white supremacy over the black people. ... If almost half of the cargo arrived alive, it was a good score for the white people. We have to consider that frequently half of the white crew also died during the voyage. ...
He still describes her actions as "the water coming down her face," instead of crying or "she made a noise that wasn't singing and wasn't crying," for her wincing which shows that he doesn't quite know what she's doing but he seems to know it is significant. ... The dialogue also gives clues about how they culturally live, not so much like Native Americans but more like white men, though the Native American's talk about both with distaste. Although the Native American's live like white men on their plantation, they still hold true to certain rituals when the chi...
To draw on Susan Meyer once more, she states, 'By making these sly, intermittent allusions to non-white races when describing the British aristocracy, Bronte gives the 'dark races' the metaphorical role of representing the presence of oppression in the novel.' ... This assumption of white superiority can be seen most starkly in Bertha. ... Thirdly, they are associated with savage animals; 'wild beast', 'snarling, canine noise' and 'like a tigress'. ...
In one dance a spectator noted that, slaves would gather, and form a ring of singers, they would then utter a kind of melodious chant that gradually increased in strength and in noise until trebles were felt throughout the property. ... Spirituals - Were a genre of religious folk song founded in American black and white musical traditions. Black and white spirituals share many tunes and texts; blacks and whites mingled at camp meetings, and musical influences probably traveled both ways. ...
For you would be whipped even more and harder for any noise you made. ... The children wouldn't have to walk around any more wondering why the white children had beautiful names like Katherine Anne Freed and they responded to little Nigger. ...
In stanza 15 he personifies the cracking ice as it "growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!... Life-in-Death is a woman that's described as having skin "as white as leprosyWho thicks man's blood with cold" (3.45). ...
