summary: She was born a slave at the coastal town of Edenton, North Carolina, in 1813. Her grandmothers were slaves, too. Her maternal grandmother baked cakes and cracker very well, and could buy them. The grandmother sometimes supported her poor slave life in secret. Her grandfathers were the white men who owned the grandmothers. Her father was an intelligent, skilled carpenter. He was allowed to earn own money by his owner. He kept offering the owner to buy his children by his all money, but the owner had never permitted. Her mother died when she was six years old, but her new owner, Ruth Nash, treated her and her brother with great care. However, when she was eleven years old, Ruth Nash died, too. After that, she led a tragic life as well as other slaves.
comments:This book is interesting for me, but a little bit difficult. This is why I can't read fast. I can't believe that such a thing had prevailed, because I have never experienced and seen racial discrimination. There is only one race in my country. So this book teach me what racial discrimination is.
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It's not an easy book, because the culture and traditions in the story are so foreign. I think it will get easier the more you read.
Can you imagine if you were not allowed to buy your children's freedom? How incredibly awful that was!
I have heard that there is some racial discrimination in Japan, and that some Japanese have negative feelings about Korean-Japanese, or about Southeast Asians in Japan. Discrimination is usually hard for us to see, unless we are the ones discriminated against.
good story book, keep reading..^^
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