The View from the Bottom Rail
In the book, After the fact, by James West Davidson and Mark Hamilton Lytle, the authors researched about black African slaves living in America in the 1800s. Specifically in chapter 8 - The View from the Bottom Rail, the authors aspect of historical research that they display in this chapter are how the slaves used be treated, how they lived and how they reacted when the North won the war. People learned about slave life from stories written by white contemporaries since slaves did not write any letters, keep diaries, or leave any written records because they were illiterate. The southern legislatures passed slave codes that prohibited the white people to teach them. The relationship that the slave and the master …show more content…
She was interviewed by a guy named Augustus Landson. Her Master, Mr. Fuller, was President of the first National Bank. Mr. Fuller had eight men and women with five girls and six guys that worked for him. She remembers one of the slaves that she used to work with. Her name was Clory and she got a whipped brutally. “Dey whip’ ‘er until dere wasn’t a white spot on her body. Dat wus de worst I ebber see a human bein’ got such a beatin’. I t’ought she was goin’ to die.”, Said Hamilton. When a slave was getting whipped, all the other slaves were forced to watch. She had a horrible experience watching a slave getting hung by the ceiling of a building and whipped around her lower part of her body. When they took her down, she was not breathing. When the war began, Hamilton and the other slaves were taken to Aiken, South Carolina. They stayed until the Yankees arrived. Hamilton said “We could see balls sailin ‘ t’rough de air w’en Sherman wus comin’. Bumbs hit trees in our yard. W’en de freedom gun wus fired, I wus on my ‘nees scrubbin’. Dey tell me I wus free but I didn’t b’lieve …show more content…
I already thought that slavery was immoral and should not have been legal and that it was a good thing that the North went to war with the South to stop slavery. I also believe that both stories were true and were from two different people. In the chapter, the authors analyzed about how the freed people speak and I disagree with their analysis because of how ignorant they sound. The authors are saying how the interviewer of Susan Hamilton; Augustus Ladson was black because Hamilton called him “son”. They also think the content of the interview is too critical to whites because Hamlin remarked white race as “brazen”. They also think that Susan Hamlin and Susan Hamilton are the same
In the book, After the fact, by James West Davidson and Mark Hamilton Lytle, the authors researched about black African slaves living in America in the 1800s. Specifically in chapter 8 - The View from the Bottom Rail, the authors aspect of historical research that they display in this chapter are how the slaves used be treated, how they lived and how they reacted when the North won the war. People learned about slave life from stories written by white contemporaries since slaves did not write any letters, keep diaries, or leave any written records because they were illiterate. The southern legislatures passed slave codes that prohibited the white people to teach them. The relationship that the slave and the master …show more content…
She was interviewed by a guy named Augustus Landson. Her Master, Mr. Fuller, was President of the first National Bank. Mr. Fuller had eight men and women with five girls and six guys that worked for him. She remembers one of the slaves that she used to work with. Her name was Clory and she got a whipped brutally. “Dey whip’ ‘er until dere wasn’t a white spot on her body. Dat wus de worst I ebber see a human bein’ got such a beatin’. I t’ought she was goin’ to die.”, Said Hamilton. When a slave was getting whipped, all the other slaves were forced to watch. She had a horrible experience watching a slave getting hung by the ceiling of a building and whipped around her lower part of her body. When they took her down, she was not breathing. When the war began, Hamilton and the other slaves were taken to Aiken, South Carolina. They stayed until the Yankees arrived. Hamilton said “We could see balls sailin ‘ t’rough de air w’en Sherman wus comin’. Bumbs hit trees in our yard. W’en de freedom gun wus fired, I wus on my ‘nees scrubbin’. Dey tell me I wus free but I didn’t b’lieve …show more content…
I already thought that slavery was immoral and should not have been legal and that it was a good thing that the North went to war with the South to stop slavery. I also believe that both stories were true and were from two different people. In the chapter, the authors analyzed about how the freed people speak and I disagree with their analysis because of how ignorant they sound. The authors are saying how the interviewer of Susan Hamilton; Augustus Ladson was black because Hamilton called him “son”. They also think the content of the interview is too critical to whites because Hamlin remarked white race as “brazen”. They also think that Susan Hamlin and Susan Hamilton are the same