The Plantation: Reflection by Freddie Blondet

The Plantation is the book three of the autobiography of miss Jane Pittman. This book show us the cruelty, the mistreatment, the abuse, the brutality and the inhumanity that were common in the plantation and continued even later of the freedom of all the slave. Example of this occurred in the competition between Harriet and Katie (two slave) in where the winner would be the one that collected more grass and cotton; and how the grass slowed Harriet she started to leaving grass behind while Grace caught all the grass that Harriet left behind. For this reason, Tom Joe hollored her, and how she did not responses him hollored he went down and started to beating her with the bridle reins, later he started beating Grace because she was trying to protect Harriet and then “Bessie ran down there with the hoe and threatened to chop his head off” (Gaines 139). Later of this success “the Samson didn’t do a thing to Tom Joe, but they fired Katie. And they told Bessie she had to leave the place. Bessie she had a house full of children, but still she had to go. They told her if she didn’t have so many children they would a put her in jail for threatening Tom Joe” (Gaines 139).

These events are too cruel and unjust, because do not do good her job is not reason to be punished physically like in the slavery times. Would have been better, scolding her face-to-face, ordering her to correct all her faults, if she wanted to continue working there. But the fact of hitting her with a desire to kill her shows how the brutalities that occurred in slavery continue to occur. And the fact that nothing has been done to Tom Joe shows the racism on the part of the owners of the plantation that instead of protecting their employees, giving them the same rights, so that they prosecute criminally or punish in some way Abusive Tom Joe; Instead of doing justice, they do not do anything to this abuser, and they dismiss to the victim Katie and its defender Bessie.

            Tom Joe was a racist cruel man with complex of superiority over the niggers that makes him enjoy punish, beat and abuse of any nigger. This man is the representation of the evil because he hated all the niggers just for have a different skin color, he is like any white racist man that leads her hate to action. This class of people should not be exist because uses her authority to take control over others. I do not know who is worse this man, or the men that do not do anything for punish the actions of the people like that. Because the Samson do not do anything to protects their niggers employees nor the son of mister Samson, Timmy that was a black man that was beating by Tom Joe. And Tom Joe for this action was not taken to jail. Because according to Mr. Samson “you pinned medals on a white man when he beat a nigger for drawing back his hand” (Gaines 153). What is worse Tom Joe or Samson? Is a very subjective question that can have variety of answers but for me both are too bad.

Work Cited:

Gaines, Ernest J. The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. United States: Bantam, 1972.