Aboriginal Themes In The Film 'Night John'

This essay examines two themes from the social justice unit studied this term, slavery and white superiority. I chose these two themes because many African American teens who probably don’t know the hardships their ancestors went through and in the film Night John brings those hardships to life. I also chose these two themes because in 1931 aboriginal and half caste kids (half European, half aboriginal) were taken to be assimilated of their culture and be thought “the right way of living” but a question that really made me think was how about if you were fully European and enjoyed the aboriginal culture, and started to follow their way of living would you have to go to moore river native settlement to get assimilated for what you now believe in? …show more content…
African americans were sold to plantations for instance when Sarneys mother was sold to a plantation in the beginning of the film “Night John”. There was also many laws set for slaves specifically, because the slave owners would have equal power as the slaves if these laws weren't put into place. If the slave laws weren’t followed there would have been severe consequences, for example when Outlaw when to go see his girlfriend Egypt who worked at a different plantation, but when Clel Waller found out it wasn't looking good for outlaw he got multiple whip lashes on his back. Also the tone of your skin determined the position you had on the plantation if you were considered “light skin” you were a slave, but wasn't put through exhausting labour like most slaves were, as an example the “light skin” guy on the horse his job was to watch the slaves and report to Clel if anything against their command