The theme of morality was an issue that was ever-present not only in the lives of slaves but also the lives of plantation owners and their less fortunate counterparts, but it can best be analyzed in the more modern context of cognitive dissonance which in short refers to this internal strife where people become complacent with their lifestyle. In the movie we witness quite a few instances of violence, but I want to focus on the sexual violence experienced by the slaves in the film this was encapsulated in the scene in which Kizzy (Kunta Kinte’s daughter) was raped by the slave master. In his journal William Byrd II detailed his everyday actions, but in some of the most notable and appalling he described the acts of sexual violence in which
