AADS/ENGL 3328.01
For my creative post, I decided to write some of my own versions of Indigo’s moon journeys/life recipes from the perspective of the grown up Indigo we see at the end of the novel. When reading Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo, I found myself really missing Indigo’s spiritual and whimsical voice in the middle. I liked…
Hi everybody! Feel free to check out the project Tess, Will, and I are working on and let us know if you have thoughts! What: Briefly describe how the form of your group’s final project has changed and/or developed from what you described in the first check-in. In our initial project check-in, we focused on…
In Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs describes the cruelty she is shown at the hands of her mistress, Mrs. Flint. In Chapter VI “The Jealous Mistress,” however, the empathy that Jacobs shows towards Mrs. Flint depicts Flint as not just an enforcer of the institution of slavery, but rather a…
Throughout Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe uses the examples of supposedly kind and good-natured white men to show that structural, rather than solely individual, change is needed to dismantle the institution of slavery. Furthermore, Stowe uses these characters to show how religion, when misinterpreted and treated as a series of laws can contribute to…