Slavery--M&D: SPOILERS

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Max opines:
"How the hell more directly can TRP treat slavery?  I could quote multiple
lengthy passages in which Mason, Dixon, and Cherrycoke (and others) speak,
think, or write about the fundamental moral evil of slavery and how it
distorts societies which depend on it.  Was Mr. Reviewer perhaps...skimming?"



Exactly right.  I'm still only 100 pages in, but one of the most telling
passages in the book is the encounter with the Vroom (of course) family
in Capetown, particularly the women with Mason, all to try to get him
aroused enough to impregnate their slave women so that they can have
more marketable lighter-skinned slaves for trade!

TRP takes a traveling salesman joke and turns it into something truly chilling!

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)