M&D Deep Duck Self-Determination

[Mark Kohut]

P> 10. Cherrycoke realizes "his name had never been his
own"....Pynchon's way to describe
being unfree when you are a British colonist?. The have 'your own
name' is to be that 'free individual' that is one of the foundational
myths of the United states? (as long as you weren't owned as a slave,
nor were a woman, of course).

Becker tells me that there was a phrase excoriating slavery that
Jefferson wanted into the Constitution but it was voted out (for
political reasons. T make it easier to get the Document ratified).
Jefferson the slaveholder.
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