Race and Gender in the Making of an African American Literary Tradition by Twagilimana Aimable;

Author:Twagilimana, Aimable;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 1997-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Frederick Douglass is known for his sense of humor. When he insists on the fact that Mr. Gore could not tell jokes, he means that he could shed blood. He also wants us to see the negative effects of slavery not just on the slaves (this is too obvious) but also on the overseers. By the dint of treating other human beings as lower animals, slaveholders themselves become brutal animals. This is the ultimate price that slaveowners, colonialists in the Americas and in Africa ended up paying: that of their own humanity. In The Black Jacobins, C. L. R. James reports that many European colonists and priests lost their morality because of their debauchery and their greed for riches.26 As for those involved in slave trade, they are described as having lost any sense of decency and humanity:

One captain, to strike terror into the rest, killed a slave and dividing heart, liver and entrails into 300 pieces made each of the slaves eat one, threatening those who refused with the same torture. Such incidents were not rare. (9)

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