[ SECRET POST #2820 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2820 ⌋

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[mekkio]

Northup has some serious Stockholm Syndrome with Ford. A slave owner is still a slave owner no matter how much his slaves admire him. With Ford it's more sinister because he seems so kind and caring on the surface but in reality he has no problem buying people and subjecting them to a life of forced servitude.

[chardmonster]

Oh for fuck's sake. Two things.

First, saying "I'd rather be enslaved by the generally sane guy than Rape Finnes" isn't Stockholm Syndrome. It's the sort of rational decision a person in horrible conditions has to make. Northup did not have the luxury of an objective perspective. He had to live it.

Second, keep in mind that 12 Years a Slave is a slave narrative written and published in 1853, while slavery was still practiced in the United States. It's activist literature. The message that "all white slave owners are irredeemably evil" is not really going to help the abolitonist cause.

You find similar themes in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs: that slavery is an institution that corrupts otherwise good people.

[(Anonymous)]

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