5. Why is this image/object significant to our understanding of the United States during the 1890s?
Consider how this image or object—and especially its representation of the human body—demonstrates, suggests, or reveals a particular definition or understanding of who an American is (or, its inverse: who an American is not) and what qualities constitute or define their American-ness?
Slavery is not just a problem that affects people of color who are treated unequal. Slavery affects people who does not treat people unequal because it makes those realize how wrong their actions are towards people of color. Some people who are white may see people of color as people who are not worthy, but it does not mean that slavery is the right route to treat others. Slavery is an issue that has affected and traumatized a lot of people into how they were raised into society, but it has grown people into realizing what was right and wrong over the past decades of how people treat each individual; unequal.
Footnotes: Kolodizjczyk, "Slave Hunting and Slave Redemption as a Business Enterprise: The Northern Black Sea Region in the Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries" Parsons, "Slavery: Its Origin, Influence, and Destiny" Spruill, "Slave Patrols, 'Packs of Negro Dogs' and Policing Black Communities" No 1 The National Magazine 2, "Colonial Slavery", No 4 Thomas, "Hunting Stories & Stories Told about Hunting: What Isaac McCaslin Thinks He Learns in The Big Woods" Williams, " Slavery" and "Reconstruction of the Union"