Middle Passage

First I must start off by saying that I found this novel to be the easiest to read out of all of the readings we have been exposed to. I find myself just plowing through pages and not having to reread things over and over again to try and figure things out. I think that this novel it such easy reading for me because it seems to have a well developed plot, at least this far into the novel.
I found Calhoun’s master to be a very interestion character. I found him to be so interesting because we haven’t really read about good slave masters. They fact that he sets all of his slaves free really shocked me. I mean we have read about a couple of masters treating their slaves well. But never have we read about how a master frees all of his slaves one by one. We have also read about masters who educate their slaves, but the part that really entriged me was when Calhoun was talking about his stealing and how his master took the time to instill better morals and skills in Calhoun. By this I mean, he taught him to use his stealing skills to teach him other traits like writing and playing the piano. I am certain that these kinds of slave owners were few and far between but it is good to hear that not all slaves had it as bad as slaves did in equiano and the incidents in the life of a slave girl.
Another character that I found to be very interesting was isadora. I find her intersesting because I don’t really understand where she is coming from a lot of the time. The things she says I don’t nessesarily agree which makes me very interested to get to know and understand her bettter. For example when Isador refers to Calhoun as “clay.” I didn’t really understand this because she is saying that she can mold him into the man she wants him to be, I got that part, but I personally don’t agree with this. I don’t think you can mold anyone into anything, people are who they are, and one should love them for that. Also the way that isadora uses blackmail and perswasion to try and get Chalhoun to marry him I find to be weak and malicious. Although I don’t related or agree with Isadora in any of the things she does I think that she is a great asset to the book because we see people deperation and lifes struggles.
I also found this novel to be interesting because it involves exslaves transporting slaves by boat into america. I found this to be an interesting concept because it is like they are promoting slavery in a way. I mean without them working the ships no more slaves would be able to be shipped into the country. This really really took me aback because I would have never imagined any exslave supporting this transport.