Chapter Summary Of Cora's Declaration Of Independence

In the book Cora has now reached Indiana which is a place that has mostly black people living in it. While they are free they are still under the suppression of the white community. In this chapter Cora gets education it’s not the best education but it’s still education that she didn’t have. During this time the class has memorized the Declaration of Independence. A quote that was said about this was “The Declaration is like a map. You trust that it’s right, but you only know if it’s right when you go out and test it yourself”. In the past the slaves at the plantation Cora was at were forced to recite the Declaration of Independence as a way to discourage the slaves, but now there reciting it in class. They trust that it’s right however they can not see it for themselves. During this time period if slaves really could go out and test the Declaration as a map then they would see it is false. The first part on why it is like this is because even as a free black person you’ll still be treated as under a normal person. Another reason why it’s like this is because that when slaves …show more content…
In this chapter Cora gets treated very well, she was in a community that cared about her. She got a stable education and got food that was good. In this community she was surrounded by other black people which is why she was treated so well. Now during the end of the chapter that town was raided. The white people didn’t care about the rights of black people. While all of them were free and none of them were slaves white people still had the authority to do whatever they wanted and the black people even though they were free had no right for them to stop this. “their faces had been transformed by fear. The heat from the fires washed over her. Valentine’s house was ablaze.” So even though they were free they were still targets. They all tried testing out there rights in the Declaration and it was