Isu Vserbal Visual Analysis

ISU Verbal Visual Essay!
Theme: Escape to freedom
“Perhaps it was true. Maybe Allah lived only in my land, with the homelanders. Maybe he didn’t live on the toubabu’s ship or in the toubabu’s land. I said nothing.” (Page 86) Aminata was eleven years old at the time. She was stuck on the ship with now where to go. Captured by the toubabu, she felt that she would never escape to freedom. She felt very desperate, to the point where she started to disbelieve in her lord, the almighty god that her father prayed towards, and felt that she should too. This proves to us the state the captives were in at the time they were captured. Whenever she would try to praise Allah, a toubabu would strike her from the back and knock her on the floor.
She believed that no man could help her out of this situation, but also believed that the god that created all mankind could help her. She felt hopeless when situations were only getting worse, instead of getting better. She believed her lord would become her saviour, as she was one of the very few on the ship who followed the religion of Islam. Meena was heartbroken and felt down because in time she needed help, no one came for her. Moment after moment, things were getting worse and she was hopeless, thinking to why this was
They were considered “niggers” by society even if they were originally white but had a black ancestor. If people knew about his history, they could slave him, and no one would be able to argue because those are the rules people implemented on black folks in those days. No rights at all were given to black folks as far as it went. Black folks thought of themselves as hopeless, they never imagined to escape the slavery and torture. Very few people had little hope in them for change. They were constantly put down by the toubabu and left in shame because of their skin colour or ancestors. The road to freedom seemed almost impossible to Meena at this point. Even a white man who perhaps had a black ancestor could not retrieve his