Reflection Time

Paul Jairam

ENG 101

B1

Reflect like a mirror I shall. We are currently reading a book called “Slave and Citizen”, which is written by Frank Tannenbaum and it’s widely a book that sheds an enormous amount of light on slavery but fluorescently more focus on the life of African’s aka “Negro’s” during slavery. As of now, since we've past the 80^th page, the book is playing out to be a source of history told by an adequate fella that doesn’t shadow these centuries of terror. As I read more and more I notice there’s so much more to the history of slavery than what I was taught in my teenage years.

As far as I’ve read and taking into account with notes an thoughts, I find it very interesting how the “major points” are blended in an out of the reading. For example today when the professor pointed out a very capital point on page 42 that stated mainly how everything has played out for the “Negro’s”. It elaborated on how the outcome differs widely in America as opposed to other countries. It’s very sad and depriving knowing the bitter detail behind the curtain. Although what is said before this is more of a sad matter, there’s a brighter side to it all. Like we stated in class and it was described in the passage as well that without the “negro’s” a vast majority of industrializing in slavery times could have never been accomplished. Therefore, it’s a reassuring feeling that I myself and those of African descent as well as others of any descent are considerate for the blood, sweat, tears, and lives that were lost in the adventure to building the new worlds.