Daryl Scott writes in his essay “Their faces were black, but the elites were untrue” that though African Americans were enslaved the “aristocrats” had no right to imprison other human beings, blinded by riches the ‘wealthy’ slave holders saw human beings as no more value than the flower vase. Those slave holders blind as they were, knew somewhere in their hearts that Rousseau and Douglass were right, maybe that is why most slave holders were aggressive, as a sign of power, ‘watch me beat another human being down to the ground so I can be exclaimed as master!’. Adebayo Williams in her essay “of human bondage and literary triumphs; Hannah Crafts and the morphology of the slave narrative” she writes that some white slave owners would write the memoirs of their black slaves to gain popularity with their slave population, and then later try and publish them under pen names. This usually ended in family shame and having a whole community attack them personally, or have their slaves hung for ‘disrupting the common sanity of the white owners’. Rousseau and Douglass would have addressed this as a shameful act as well I believe, it was well within their rights to do those things, but at the same time it denied another the chance to create their own story and send it to the world how they
Daryl Scott writes in his essay “Their faces were black, but the elites were untrue” that though African Americans were enslaved the “aristocrats” had no right to imprison other human beings, blinded by riches the ‘wealthy’ slave holders saw human beings as no more value than the flower vase. Those slave holders blind as they were, knew somewhere in their hearts that Rousseau and Douglass were right, maybe that is why most slave holders were aggressive, as a sign of power, ‘watch me beat another human being down to the ground so I can be exclaimed as master!’. Adebayo Williams in her essay “of human bondage and literary triumphs; Hannah Crafts and the morphology of the slave narrative” she writes that some white slave owners would write the memoirs of their black slaves to gain popularity with their slave population, and then later try and publish them under pen names. This usually ended in family shame and having a whole community attack them personally, or have their slaves hung for ‘disrupting the common sanity of the white owners’. Rousseau and Douglass would have addressed this as a shameful act as well I believe, it was well within their rights to do those things, but at the same time it denied another the chance to create their own story and send it to the world how they