An example of the resistance to forget the past after the Emancipation Act can be seen in the Wide Sargasso Sea when Christophine thought and said, "No more slavery! She had to laugh! 'These new ones have Letter of the Law. Same thing. The got magistrate. They got fine. They got jail house and chain gang. They got tread machine to mash up people 's feet. New ones worse than old ones- more cunning, that 's all ' " …show more content…
Antionette 's husband, although not specified is thought to be Mr. Rochester, showed that racism still existed in this post-slavery area when he kicked Christophine off of the island when she spoke up against the injustice that Rochester was causing to Antoinette, with her affection and with her money (1071-1072). Rhys portrays this conversation when Christophine said, "And she love you and give you all she have. Now you say you don 't love her and you break her up. What you do with her money, eh? '" leaving Rochester to respond with, "Leave the West Indies if you don 't want her no more" (158). Mardorossian stated that this action from Rochester shows that "the abolition of slavery has far from eradicated the set of attitudes on which the concept of Englishness depends"