The bloodshot eyes detail carries so much weight in this narrative. That small visual of shared rage between enslaved people says more about resistence than pages could. The framing here inverts the entire supremacy concept by showing what actual strength looks like, not the manufactured version built on fear. Dunno if enough people understand how deliberate that mythology was. Read something similar about how slaveholders needed the lie to justify the system to themselves as much as anyone else.
The bloodshot eyes detail carries so much weight in this narrative. That small visual of shared rage between enslaved people says more about resistence than pages could. The framing here inverts the entire supremacy concept by showing what actual strength looks like, not the manufactured version built on fear. Dunno if enough people understand how deliberate that mythology was. Read something similar about how slaveholders needed the lie to justify the system to themselves as much as anyone else.
Thanks for the comment. That's a pretty good summary of what I was trying to say. :-)
Thank you for this. An excellent read for MLK Day.
Thanks, Ellen. And thanks for catching a couple of boo-boos.