Slaves specifically males were seen as being sluggish, unwise and dishonest. Because of the circumstance that Scipio is everything but those typical labels was written out of the main plot perhaps to evade any more conventional clashes than were already current. The characters serve as embodiments of the north and south and are described confidently and undesirably as they were in real life. The deprived old Christian black man loses his life to the South and its wicked slavery
Slaves specifically males were seen as being sluggish, unwise and dishonest. Because of the circumstance that Scipio is everything but those typical labels was written out of the main plot perhaps to evade any more conventional clashes than were already current. The characters serve as embodiments of the north and south and are described confidently and undesirably as they were in real life. The deprived old Christian black man loses his life to the South and its wicked slavery