Examples Of Racism In The Book Kindred

The main theme I received throughout the book Kindred was about racism, this is because of the way white people treated black people. An example is how the patrollers behaved towards a black man. The patrollers had busted into a black family's home and started interrogating the black man. He had said he has a pass. Therefore, they demanded they see his pass, but he didn’t know where the pass when. After they just started tying him around a tree and one of them got his whip from his horse. The man “cracked it once in the air, apparently for his own amusement, then brought it down across the back of the black man” (Butler 36). The patroller whipped the naked back of the black man numerous more times. The white man hadn’t even owned the black man, yet he whipped him like he deserved to get disciplined. Consequently, proving how cruel white people treat black people. …show more content…
However, this is a day after Tom Weylin whipped her for trying to run away to go find Kevin. Tom Weylin and Rufus was gone and Jake Edwards basically decided that was his times to show everyone how important he was. He started ordering the other slaves that didn’t work as a field hand. Even though he really only has authority over the field hand, slaves. Also, him telling Dana to do the wash is cruel because she was already in pain and doing the wash hurts their back. He had also said she hadn’t known “what a whippin’ [was] yet!” (Butler 182). Jake Edwards words illiterates the theme racism because if Dana or all the other slaves were white he would have never dared to do that to them and he would have stayed in his