Tashayana Grant
English250
Essay 1
While interpreting “Bid'em in” By; Oscar Brown Jr and “The Slave Auction” By; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper , both pieces of literature analyze the drastic measurements of the slave auctions during the 18th century. Can you imagine being abducted from your family, treated poorly, completely brainwashed from your identity, or even being sold as pieces of chattel? During the course of the African Slave Auctions, slaves experieced a significant lost of their culture and realism. Before becoming a slave one had to be bargained at a slave auction, where they were bidded on as assets. Slaves had to involuntary suffer from disturbing circumstances. The way slaves were treated by their owners were brutal, The Slave Auction literary piece deciphers the dreadful image that children and parents were being separated. The author uses figurative language to implement the reader to acknowledge how awful, devasting, and powerless the slaves felt during that time. …show more content…
“They knew they were to be sold in families, but “family” was defined as husband and wife, mother and young child, not brother or sister or parent”(Slave Auction, 1859) . I'm sure some slaves were somwhat relieved knowing they would get sold together,instead of individually. Thats probably the only hope they had. The author uses vivid, concise, and believeable language. The poem also illistrates the pain and sorrow they had to deal with in the process of being auctioned off from the vision of the
English250
Essay 1
While interpreting “Bid'em in” By; Oscar Brown Jr and “The Slave Auction” By; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper , both pieces of literature analyze the drastic measurements of the slave auctions during the 18th century. Can you imagine being abducted from your family, treated poorly, completely brainwashed from your identity, or even being sold as pieces of chattel? During the course of the African Slave Auctions, slaves experieced a significant lost of their culture and realism. Before becoming a slave one had to be bargained at a slave auction, where they were bidded on as assets. Slaves had to involuntary suffer from disturbing circumstances. The way slaves were treated by their owners were brutal, The Slave Auction literary piece deciphers the dreadful image that children and parents were being separated. The author uses figurative language to implement the reader to acknowledge how awful, devasting, and powerless the slaves felt during that time. …show more content…
“They knew they were to be sold in families, but “family” was defined as husband and wife, mother and young child, not brother or sister or parent”(Slave Auction, 1859) . I'm sure some slaves were somwhat relieved knowing they would get sold together,instead of individually. Thats probably the only hope they had. The author uses vivid, concise, and believeable language. The poem also illistrates the pain and sorrow they had to deal with in the process of being auctioned off from the vision of the