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Tag: Lerone Bennett

Lerone Bennett’s description of the three axial forces of African American life that enabled the community to survive slavery

Posted on November 9, 2013 by JL Admin

One constant source of hope for the enslaved African Americans is the prospect of a blissful afterlife that the Christian doctrine offered.  While the first generation of black slaves in America brought with them their native religious beliefs and practices, they were soon replaced by Christianity.  The white slave owners instilled in their slaves the…

Does Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed accurately describe life in real plantations as documented by historian Lerone Bennett?

Posted on November 6, 2013 by JL Admin

Octavia Butler sets her novel, Wild Seed in the context of the transatlantic slave trade and US slavery. In the story, Doro gathers “his people” on farms and plantations along the eastern seaboard. In what ways are Doro’s fictional communities similar to the real plantations described by historian Lerone Bennett (chapter 4 of Before the Mayflower…

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