The color purple
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In reading the article, "The Legacy of Slavery: Standards for a New Womanhood", and seeing the film, "The Color Purple", I notice that these pieces of work gives the reader and viewer an opportunity to understand the African American woman. The article goes back in time to when Blacks were slaves and the film is set in the 1930s, years later after slavery. Even though these pieces of work are set in different time periods, I believe that the article and the film take us along the black woman's journey to self-worth. In this essay, I will review her journey.
In The Beginning:
In part of the article, "The Legacy of Slavery", it tells the reader about the literary work, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Uncles Tom's Cabin". The article writes about Eliza, the slave woman in this literary piece. This literature portrays Eliza as a sheltered housewife, who is terribly frightened by her husband's overflowing hatred of slavery. The article states, "Eliza is practically oblivious to the general injustices of slavery. Her feminine submissiveness has prompted her to surrender her-self to her fate as a slave and to the will of her good, kind master and mistress." In the film, "The Color Purple", it also shows a black woman surrendering her-self to fate...