Slave Narrative Post #2
The content of these narratives really deepened my knowledge of how slaves felt during these awful times. I never realized how horrible some of the events that regularly happened to slaves could be so horrible. Louis Hughes, a slave, was traded around numerous times before finding an owner that actually kept him. Due to this constant shipping, he was separated from his mother at a young age, and could not rely on his father for support, for he was a white slave owner.
Louis was terribly lonely and had no one to confide in. Personally, I never would have been able to grow up into the person that I am today, without the care given to me by my parents and friends. Louis had neither. These first hand accounts show the feelings associated with slavery and give us some possible reasoning for the extreme actions that they sometimes took. I now have a better understanding of why Jim ran away, having been separated from his family and treated poorly. Also, reading this slave narrative helps me to appreciate Huck’s actions more and more because of how daring he was to actually help a slave escape and put his own life in danger.
