2. TABLE OF Content
About the narrator
Slavery
Summary
Social condition
Economic condition
Interpretation
3. About the narrator
James curry was born in 1815 in Person
Country, North Carolina
Son of slave and a domestic servant
As an adult he worked as a hatter and in
the fields
Fled the plantation in 1839, on which
they had been enslaved
4. SLavery
Deprived of personal
freedom and compelled to
work
Slaves could not participate
in wage earning trade labor
Denied the right to own
property
Resulting dependence on his
or her master for basic needs
5. Summary
The narrator was a domestic
servant
His relation with master’s
children
Desire to learn and to read
Brutal death of a negro 9
year old girl
Inhuman master and his
daughter
After 16, worked in the field
6. Social CONDITION
Four classes of colonial society:
The Gentry, The yeomanry, The
indentured servants, and The
Negroes
Highest social group was the
educated large landholders,
professional men
Second highest were the small
farmers who work the land with
their own hands
The next class were the
indentured white servants
At the bottom stood the negro as
a result of the color of their skin
7. Economic condition
Slaves were forced to do
complex farm work with low
or even no wages
All the profits were
accumulated by the white
ones
Widen the gap between
negroes and the white ones
Condition of negroes kept
degrading while the white
ones developed
8. INTERPRETATION
Portrays bitter reality of
slavery system of 19th century
in US
Shares his experience being a
slave
Focuses on the brutality of the
masters and slave holders
Difficulties faced by the slaves
Differentiates between a
common man and slaved
Contrary to the revealed will of
God
