What Ms. Rolle is talking about is absolutely in the mainstream of every commentator on African American life who emphasizes resilience and the refusal to be defeated. Trevor Burnard (a respected person who has contributed to the Routledge Encyclopedia of Slavery) even went as far as to say that slavery was not an existential condition but something that some enslaved people could turn to their advantage and some could not. (He principally studies the Caribbean where some Black people had very skilled, responsible jobs as head driver, head (sugar) boiler etc.) So the question of whether slavery was an existential condition even at the time of Dred Scott is in the background here.
As the absolute worst LGBT ally ever I think you can talk about certain narrow ideas of what family is as a common oppression for both groups but this is getting nowhere in the TGS environment.
You'd want to check the survival rates among slaves (enslaved persons?) working sugar plantations on the islands. Using one's skill and smarts to secure a "responsible job" was one of the few means available to survive. If you were a cane cutter, you were a goner—just a matter of time.
Nods emphatically but I think that my point is that those plantations could not have run without the people with responsible jobs. American skilled workers were usually working for people on site that they knew.
Not sure what you mean by your last sentence. Are you saying Americans worked the island sugar plantations? Or making a distinction between slaves in America vs ones in the islands?
What Ms. Rolle is talking about is absolutely in the mainstream of every commentator on African American life who emphasizes resilience and the refusal to be defeated. Trevor Burnard (a respected person who has contributed to the Routledge Encyclopedia of Slavery) even went as far as to say that slavery was not an existential condition but something that some enslaved people could turn to their advantage and some could not. (He principally studies the Caribbean where some Black people had very skilled, responsible jobs as head driver, head (sugar) boiler etc.) So the question of whether slavery was an existential condition even at the time of Dred Scott is in the background here.
As the absolute worst LGBT ally ever I think you can talk about certain narrow ideas of what family is as a common oppression for both groups but this is getting nowhere in the TGS environment.
You'd want to check the survival rates among slaves (enslaved persons?) working sugar plantations on the islands. Using one's skill and smarts to secure a "responsible job" was one of the few means available to survive. If you were a cane cutter, you were a goner—just a matter of time.
Nods emphatically but I think that my point is that those plantations could not have run without the people with responsible jobs. American skilled workers were usually working for people on site that they knew.
Not sure what you mean by your last sentence. Are you saying Americans worked the island sugar plantations? Or making a distinction between slaves in America vs ones in the islands?
The latter