The Slave Mother Analysis
without any hesitation and stood up for what she thought was right, becoming a activist for women's rights and equality for all.””The Slave Mother, “ “Eliza Harris,” and “The Slave Auction” attack slavery directly, while others treat subjects like temperance, poverty, women's oppression, and the author’s strong Christian faith”(Cain).
The poems by frances ellen watkins harper were brutally real, by that I mean that she painted pictures of the horrors of what happened during her time, such as in “The Slave Mother”. Frances ellen harper brought a new light to what it means to be a slave in america, the pain and suffering that african american people were put through, just because the color of their skin was darker than others. In her poem “Slave …show more content…
When Rosas “master” got married Rosa fell in love with her masters head slave George. When Rosa’s “master” realized that the two were in love she asked her husband if they could be married but he objected the idea and arranged for george to be sent to a plantation and ended up beating Rosa to death because she would not sleep with him and avoided him. When george heard of this he murdered his old “master” and went to escape when they captured another slave and was about to hang him for the murder. George confessed to the murder and saved the other slave from being hung.The newspaper read “Fiend-like murder. Frederic Dalcho, (the husband), one of our most wealthy and respected citizens, was robbed and murdered last week, by one of his slaves. The black demon was caught and hung; and hanging was too good for him.” (Cain 589). This story repulses me in many different ways, the newspaper said nothing about Rosa being beaten to death or made any attempt to uncover the truth about why George killed his “master”. At the time it made no difference to anyone if a slave was killed or not, she seen was nothing more than property or livestock, living to serve her master then die. George saved a man from certain death by confessing to the murder, thus signing his own death certificate, the newspaper never mentioned george's name, it simply regarded him as a
The poems by frances ellen watkins harper were brutally real, by that I mean that she painted pictures of the horrors of what happened during her time, such as in “The Slave Mother”. Frances ellen harper brought a new light to what it means to be a slave in america, the pain and suffering that african american people were put through, just because the color of their skin was darker than others. In her poem “Slave …show more content…
When Rosas “master” got married Rosa fell in love with her masters head slave George. When Rosa’s “master” realized that the two were in love she asked her husband if they could be married but he objected the idea and arranged for george to be sent to a plantation and ended up beating Rosa to death because she would not sleep with him and avoided him. When george heard of this he murdered his old “master” and went to escape when they captured another slave and was about to hang him for the murder. George confessed to the murder and saved the other slave from being hung.The newspaper read “Fiend-like murder. Frederic Dalcho, (the husband), one of our most wealthy and respected citizens, was robbed and murdered last week, by one of his slaves. The black demon was caught and hung; and hanging was too good for him.” (Cain 589). This story repulses me in many different ways, the newspaper said nothing about Rosa being beaten to death or made any attempt to uncover the truth about why George killed his “master”. At the time it made no difference to anyone if a slave was killed or not, she seen was nothing more than property or livestock, living to serve her master then die. George saved a man from certain death by confessing to the murder, thus signing his own death certificate, the newspaper never mentioned george's name, it simply regarded him as a