Slavery In Segu

Slaves in the civilization of Segu by Maryse Conde were treated inequitably than one can ever imagine. Slavery refers to a condition in which individuals are owned by others, who control were they live and what kinds of work they perform. However in Segu, slaves had engage in relationships when they’re told, they basically had no free will. It leaves the slaves impotent and hankering for death, because death to the slave is worth more than their life. Polygamy played a disturbing role on how African women were treated. The lens that will further scrutinize Maryse Conde’s viewpoints on the effects slavery had in 1797 on African women and their children is Critical Race Theory. Polygamy is the practice or custom of having more than …show more content…
Even though the master tried to denied that it was their child you can tell by their skin tone. In Sira’s case which she is the mother of Siga, due to the fact that Dousika got horny when he’d seen her. As stated in the story “Siga’s mother was only a captive whom Dousika must have lain with one day, aroused by the tightness of her skirt over her buttock” (p. 30). Which indicates that a slave women was obligated to give up the rights to their bodies, and couldn’t refuse intercourse on an account of the severe and harsh punishment they’ll receive. According to Tokyo researchers whom used a method functional magnetic resonance imaging (M.R.I.) to study the brain patterns of 13 mothers, shows that a mother’s impulse to love and protect her child appears to be hard-wired into her brain. Even though the African women knew that it was almost impractical to be treated equally as the legitimate wives, they would have preferred and if not them, at least the sons they bore for their masters, to be treated the same way as the sons of the legitimate wives. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case. They were forced to accept their fate no matter how …show more content…
While Siga worked tirelessly for a merchant to survive,Tiekoro had to fight the battle of putting up good attitude before his Muslim teacher and master so as not to be expelled from the university in which he entered, through the help of his master. Unfortunately, Tiekoro was not able to fulfil his dream of becoming a university graduate due to the trouble he got himself into with his master’s daughter, Ayisha, whom he fell passionately in love with. Out of his frustration, he raped a slave girl called Nadie whom he later loved and bore children with. With her, he recovered his strength and took consolation