David’s Evil-er Than Most Blog

I ended up reading the narrative of Louis Hughes (well, most of it anyway), and my perception has changed, but not that much,. The tale of his enslavement is much more elaborated than that of Douglass’ (albeit, he was born on the plantation), and in the start of the narrative, he seems to be almost unpreturbed by his enlsavement. He even calls his master “Boss”, which I would assume that slaves would want to drop post slavement, for it somehwta alludes to them acting the command of others. Overtime though, he realizes the barbaricness of the plantation, noting howcruel the slave drivers were, and how cramped the conditions. He tries 5 times to escape, which shatters my perception that attempted scapes would lead to one’s death, if caught. After much rambling about possible escape plans, he ends up with the actual escaping. Wierd…Why would it take so long? He lasts through war’s, rebellions, 4 failed escapes, and is still fine and dandy. A fine example of the tenacity of a slave, but still strange in the way’s he get’s about it.

t somewhat relates to Huck Finn. I mean, he appears to grow more and more mature, and more dainful of the slavery process, like Huck did as he spent more time with Jim on their adventures. Like Jim, Hughes wants to escape, but fails 4 times. I doubt Jim tried to escape (it seems he is rather new to the process in the start of the book). Both Jim and Huck seemt ot think Miss Watson was a good slave holder, and likewise does Hughes of his owner (after he escapes, perhaps showing that the master was hated during the actual enslavement.)