Django Unchained: The Deep South Slave

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Lastly, Django Unchained displays the detrimental impact that the Deep South slave trade imposed on the family structure amongst slaves. Throughout the movie “Django reveals the love he has for his wife, whom he was separated from because they disobey their former slave owner order prohibiting from being together. Consequently, he sold them to different plantations as their punishment. Furthermore, Django intentions once he was a free man was to find his wife and buy back her freedom”. This scene is provides the audience with insight on another tactic whites utilizes in order to weaken a slave, because taking away their love their isolating the slave emotionally

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