Joy Degruy's Narrative: A Personal Study Of Slavery
The Frederick Douglass narrative I must say, has begun a spark into my personal study of slavery once again. I was previously intrigued by Joy Degruy’s theory of Post Traumatic slave Syndrome, but this narrative in particular, addressed a sickness I have never learned about before. For example, when he went into detail about how slaves would argue about which of their masters were wealthier or had more physical stature than the other. The idea that “it was considered as being bad enough to be a slave; but to be a poor man's slave was deemed a disgrace indeed!”, was honestly baffling to me. To say the least, I was very disappointed in them in that they could defend their master even in their own privacy. I think that story was representative