Freed slaves from their white owners, but memories of their treatment is still prevelant for the blacks - creating hostility and resentment between servants and white employers
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Antoinette and Men
Antoinette doomed to a form of enslavement through her dependancy on men / husband = figurative form of slavery
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Racial Identity
English White distinguished from creole white, blacks / ex slaves hold their own position in society
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Racial Identitiy (Antoinette)
Resented by the other blacks / ex slaves in society - doesn't fit in
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"Run away...
white cockroach, run away"
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"They say when trouble comes
close ranks and so that white people did, But we were not in their ranks"
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Racial Identity (Christophine)
Stands apart from the other Jamacian women as she is martinique,
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"Her songs were not like
jamacian songs and she was not like the other women"
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"She was much blacker...with a
thin face and straight features
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"No other
***** woman wore black"
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Antoinette and Men
Back
Antoinette doomed to a form of enslavement through her dependancy on men / husband = figurative form of slavery
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