How Whitehead Humanizes the Experience of African Americans in the Underground Railroad (Essay Sample)
In Whitehead’s first chapter titled Ajarry, Cora’s grandmother, Ajarry was allowed to take on husbands and even bear children with them; until the husbands were sold to another bidder. Ajarry had three husbands. She bore five children for them but all of them died and hence did not suffer the fate of being sold off when they reached of age, except Mabel; who became Cora’s mother (11).
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How Whitehead Humanizes the Experience of African Americans in the Underground Railroad
In Whitehead’s first chapter titled Ajarry, Cora’s grandmother, Ajarry was allowed to take on husbands and even bear children with them; until the husbands were sold to another bidder. Ajarry had three husbands. She bore five children for them but all of them died and hence did not suffer the fate of being sold off when they reached of age, except Mabel; who became Cora’s mother (11). Cora’s grandmother also imagined that her cousins Isay and Sidoo worked for kind masters in the north which made it easy for them to earn their way out of slavery and into liberty as free individuals at last (9).
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