Summary Of The Slave There By Leflouria

Throughout these 5 chapters, I gained new knowledge about how the black woman was being treated in the convict system in Georgia. The scope and the general content of this book are about how the woman was able to become free. While I was reading this book, there were many scopes. The first scope that I read was when slavery was abolished, most slaves did not want their freedom. They would rather stay on their master plantain and become a servant than to be free. One of the reasons why they did not want to be free was because they did not have enough money. To be free you need to have money to be able to have a house, clothes, and food. When the post-emancipation came round, women were working with their husbands in the fields.They were getting paid money for doing the work that the master requested. The …show more content…
LeFlouria wrote this book. The first reason is to the readers that woman is capable of doing anything she wants just like a man. The second reason why I think she wrote this book is to show the readers how to stand up for themselves and for their rights. One example that would relate to this is when a sixteen-year-old girl was convicted of a murder that she had no part of. She was only convicted because she was the only person in that store hiding. When the police officers were asking her side of the story she told them and they did not believe her. She knew she did not kill him, but she knew that these white officers were not going to believe her. The third reason why I think she wrote this book is to show us how cruel the KKK use to be to the black people. While reading this book there was one disturbing incident that happened in the hands of the KKK. A pregnant lady was lynched trying to defend herself from being sexually assaulted by a white man. When she was lynched, they cut open her stomach and demolished the baby head by using a heel. After they killed the baby, they burned the remains of the woman