Franklin And Schweninger's 'In Search Of The Promise Land'
Slavery in the 19th Century In the beginning of the book In Search of the Promise Land the authors Franklin and Schweninger introduces Sally. Sally was a quisi-slave this is the reason why Sally’s services were demanded. According to Franklin, Schweninger p. 13). ‘The term “quasi-slave” was used to describe slaves who had been permitted freedom by their masters but who had not obtained a formal deed of emancipation from the state’1. Sally had the benefits of renting her own house, running her own laundry mat, and moved around freely. However for slaves everything was still at a cost. At any given time Sally could easily be picked up without any say in the matter and be shipped off and sold as a slave even though she was considered
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Once when a slave were free and had the legal documents the slave was literally free. No. There were all these other terms and conditions that still didn’t make a slave free. There’s the term “quasi-slave” such as Sally were she could run her own business but at the same time she could be shipped off to somewhere else and be a slave all over again. For slaves freedom came at a great cost. The fact in the book that remained typical was that slaves weren’t allowed to learn how to read and write. It’s sad to think that the whites didn’t want African Americans to get smarter and to eventually some day out rule the white population. It’s ridiculous to think that the whites passed out so many laws that limited the blacks on so many rights that the whites take for granted, such as the law that was passed in 1834 that effected one of Sally’s sons. If a slave couldn’t learn to read and write a slave then wouldn’t be able to live a life he or she were free. It’s interesting that this was typical, was that most whites and blacks tend to worship together. This was more about the race of coming together than the actual slavery part of it. It would have been amazing to go to a church service back then and to listen all the heated sermons that were discussed during the services about
Once when a slave were free and had the legal documents the slave was literally free. No. There were all these other terms and conditions that still didn’t make a slave free. There’s the term “quasi-slave” such as Sally were she could run her own business but at the same time she could be shipped off to somewhere else and be a slave all over again. For slaves freedom came at a great cost. The fact in the book that remained typical was that slaves weren’t allowed to learn how to read and write. It’s sad to think that the whites didn’t want African Americans to get smarter and to eventually some day out rule the white population. It’s ridiculous to think that the whites passed out so many laws that limited the blacks on so many rights that the whites take for granted, such as the law that was passed in 1834 that effected one of Sally’s sons. If a slave couldn’t learn to read and write a slave then wouldn’t be able to live a life he or she were free. It’s interesting that this was typical, was that most whites and blacks tend to worship together. This was more about the race of coming together than the actual slavery part of it. It would have been amazing to go to a church service back then and to listen all the heated sermons that were discussed during the services about