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What Makes Aminata A Successful Slave?
At a young age most parents teach their children simple abilities such as playing sports but that was not the case for Aminata, at the age of seven rains Aminata’s mother “taught [her] how to reach inside a woman…. Mama said it was good to have [her] along because [her] hands were so small” (Hill, 15) this skill was referred to as baby catching which proved to be a key part in her survival. Her skill first saved her life when she arrived on the toubab men’s ship when the medicine man saw her as a useful slave because she could deliver babies of the slaves, because of this the medicine man took Aminata under his wing and taught her how to take care of the slaves and this helped her survive the ship because if the men didn’t see a need for her
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