47 By Walter Mosley Summary

The intensifying book: 47 by Walter Mosley. This book makes the reader reflect on their own cultural rights. In this paper I will talk about the power of freedom of speech, diverse population, and just actual freedom. These all were a big effect towards the African American population and created a separate population. They could not ever speak their mind, so then they would always just keep their mouth shut and if they spoke their mind they could get punished for it. They were also sold as if they were cattle so they were not able to have any freedom unless they were to escape their plantation where they worked at. My present day life is not as hard as it was when the slaves were on the plantation working. “It is pretty hard, Mud Albert, my hands,I said holding out my bloody fingers.”(34) Kids were worked so long in cotton fields that their hands would be all cut and bloody. Presently kids do not work hard enough to even get a cut on their fingers. Slave owners never really treated their slaves with respect or decency. Which made them not want to work and that resulted in being whipped or hung. Now a days if you do not do your job, then you will just get fired and that is it. They were called terrible things each day “Are you the Negro that Mr. Pike was looking for.”(48) The slaves were called that …show more content…
Their whole lives consisted of being an object not a person which did not result in the best live and they were always miserable. They would be so discouraged to do work that they would sometimes not work as hard as a result of not working hard they would be whipped and punished. When they got mad enough,they would actually try to attack the owner and they were killed right away for trying to murder the