blog four jrc Reflection of cluster

                              
                                       Throughout this english 101 course i have come across many themes in " When I Was A slave" edited by Norman Yetman as well as "Southern Horrors" edited by Jacqueline Royster.
While slavery itself is a theme, I had already found myself disecting  it more to find other themes within it.
In the book "When I Was A Slave" themes such as slave culture and work culture would apear many times.  Another theme that showed up many times in the book would be the caste system within slavery. It explained how some slaves were treated better than others and were even trusted by their owners. While reading "Southern Horrors" most of the themes came from our exercise of using keyword strategy. I was able to find themes such as Negro Dominance, which is defined as African-Americans developing in a southern white society. Another theme that came out of "Southern Horrors" was White Honor, which was a theory that conversing with a black person as if  they were of equal caliber to the whites would be unruly.   One theme that i have seen even outside of english 101 class would be rights.
                                   The theme of rights is very common but i have been able to make different connections to it  while going to my Law and Human rights class and Linguistics. For an example, slaves did not have rights and they were not even considered human beings. They were considered no more than property. We learned this in Law and human rights class when reading the Plessy vs.ferguson case. I have also learned in linguistics class that Language is very much connected to rights. Again in "Southern Horrors" the government; more specifically the democrats were the reason why black people were limited of their rights. They used language through their written laws and regulations such as the Jim Crow laws and the Black Codes. These laws were specifically created to limit the power of blacks.
                                       The different classes we have differ because of their own uniqueness but still manage to relate to each other when we discuss rights as a whole. English 101 seems to cover all of the detailed slave accounts and stories from the 1800's and into the 1900's. I would say it is the class that is heavily based on background information of before and after the civil war. Law and Human rights leans more toward the government and explains how they either worked against society or with them.  It brings up the issue of whether or not we have the ability to use our rights to the full of their potential. Lastly linguistics class would appear to be far more complex when comparing it to themes mentioned. It possess the same characteristics as English 101  in relation to the heavy level of information given, however it is far more focused on the science of language and the many ways it can be used.
                                The fact that our class is diverse helps us all to learn about other cultures and backgrounds. A lot of us have misconceptions about each other such as religion and government and to have the opportunity to meet somebody from that particular culture creates a very fascinating  learning environment.  Another thing that is interesting is the fact that just by observing us you cannot tell that we belong to many different cultures and are multilingual.  By being in a multicultural environment it helps to answer a lot of questions and even find similarities between one another. It has been a very familiar and interesting experience for me and i am enjoying it. I also love the idea of a cluster because it is a great way to introduce a high school graduate into the intensive academic world of college.
                                        Our LIB class is really a reflection on all of our studies as a whole. It is the one day we have the whole class period to think about and discuss the familiarities between each class. Many topics have came up in class such as rights and language. Then we disucss how language can be used as a way to take away someones rights, which connects to slavery in the 1800's as well as racial driven violence in the 1900's.  As far as any more connections that can be made within the cluster, i have to say i am very much pleased with the amount of information given and the connections being made. I can't think of anything we might have missed or overlooked.

jrc paper assignment 2 revised in class

Arsenio Jordan

                     Before the civil war began slavery and white supremacy violence hindered any chance of African-American development. However after the civil war ended we find that slavery has now demolished and African-American labor takes its place. Black people were transitioning from slaves to labor workers. They now had the option  to continue work on the fields and receive minimum wage or leave an enslaved society and start a new life.  At the same time after the civil war we notice the motives for white supremacy violence transitioning from discipline to acts of terrorism. White supremacy violence could no longer be used in a sense of ownership towards a black person but rather a form of terrorism. These two transformations help us to understand   how African-American development was viewed as a threat to white southerners and  how they were intimidated by the growing society of  educated and business wise blacks.  To elaborate more on this I will use texts from When I Was A Slave Edited by Norman Yetman  and then I will go into Southern Horrors Edited by Jacqueline Jones Royster.

               Between the years of 1861 and 1865 the civil war had already began and the Yankee soldiers started their mission of freeing slaves. However most slaves shunned the idea of leaving behind an enslaved lifestyle that offered free food and shelter. Not only did they have these resources but as slaves they developed  their own self sustainable work culture. In the book When I Was A Slave Edited by Norman  Yetman  the reader will encounter recorded  memoirs of former slaves being interviewed about their previous lives in captivity. Former slave Millie Evans was interviewed at the age of 88 in El Dorado, Arkansas where she explained growing up on the plantation as a rather pleasant experience. She quotes “We had such a good time, and everybody cried when the Yankees cried out free” (Yetman pg.35). Millie also gives examples of a work culture that developed in the slave society when she says “We made vinegar out of apples” and “We used rotten vines for clotheslines” (Yetman pg.34). Together both quotes illustrate the reason why freed slaves wanted to return back to captivity as well as describe the work culture that developed amongst them. With that being said, the fact that a society populated by blacks who originally formed their own a self-sustainable system could reap the benefits of either leaving the slave plantation or working for money would appear to be the start of  the negro coming up in society. This piece of evidence is crucial to remember because  that is exactly what the whites feared.  or  Before the civil war white men controlled society and designed it so that they could always remain superior over black people. How could they continue to prevail  if black slaves who were now freed had these opportunities to benefit  from?.

During the times of slavery white supremacy violence were used on slaves as a disciplinary. If a slave refused to reach a masters expectations then they would be severely whipped or beaten. After the civil war ended the level of white supremacy violence changed as well as the reasons for it . Instead of being severely beaten or whipped, southern whites were now killing black people by lynching’s which is the painful fatality of being hung at the neck from a tree. White supremacy violence could no longer be used in a sense of ownership towards a black person so it was then used as a form of terrorism. Although the white southerners wouldn't call it terrorism. Their alleged reason for the killing of black men was to punish them for supposedly raping their white women.

Ida B. Wells, an African-American journalist and newspaper editor would dig deeper into this theory of “protecting white honor” by mentioning certain cases that she found to be unreasonable and unlawful. One case dealt with Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell and Will Stewart. All three men had owned and operated “The People's Grocery” and were accused of wounding three white men in defense of their property being raided. Wells expresses her concerns when she mentions “By law the wounding of a white person was not punishable by death. None the less on March 9, lynch law prevailed” (Royster pg. 3). Wells reveals that even though wounding a white person is not punishable by death Those three black men became victims of a lynching which was followed by a programme, the act of filling hundreds of bullets into the lifeless bodies that had been hung.

Surely rape couldn't possibly be the reason for all of this black man named Benjamin Jackson who was accused of poisoning the water of a white family that would leave them ill and end in their death. Wells states “The white people concluded it was unnecessary to wait the result of the investigation – that it was preferable to hang the accused first and try him afterward” (Royster pg. 111). The three men were convicted without a fair trial and not only were they thrown in jail but were taken out to be lynched as well.

Because of the During the civil war we will notice that the whites had already formed groups such as the KKK (Klu Klux Klan) to terrorize the freed slaves that .the and mentions the benefits of having good foo It should be noted here that Slaves knew how to cook as well as sew their own clothing so here is distinct evidence of African-Americans development.Therefore The trend of former slaves working the fields for money began to arise. were part of the blueprints for building African-American development. Unfortunately white supremacy violence still lingered long after the civil war. Former slave masters were now considered as rich white southerners that were involved in mob groups specially designed to inflict violence and degrade African-Americans. Organizations and groups such as the Klu Klux Klan were one of many mob that targeted blacks. However. The development of African-Americans Society conditions and white supremacy violence were used as controlling mechanisms used by rich white southerners to slow and eventually end any form of African -American development. To elaborate more on this I will use texts from “When I Was A Slave Edited by Norman Yetman” and then I will go into “Southern Horrors Edited by Jacqueline Jones Royster”.

. Later in the text Mary goes on to explain how things suddenly changed after the civil war broke out and the Yankees freeing the slaves when she quotes ”Some were so glad to get back they cried, 'cause fare had been a mighty bad part of the time they were rambling around and they were hungry” (Yetman 4). Mary basically states that during the civil war slaves were freed by the yankees. Although money and food was hard to come by as well as shelter. This eventually made them come back to the plantation where they would work for minimum wage. This is important because it was society conditions that purposely led the now free slaves back to the plantation where resources remained.

Within this society controlled by whites ,there were also white people that roamed the streets after the main provider in their household went off to war. These white people would either trade with a runaway slave and actually lead them to freedom or trick them and turn them back into the hands of their slave owners. The ones that would trick a runaway slave was considered a sesesh which is basically a white person in favor of slavery and warring against the Yankees. Former slave Anthony Dawson who was interviewed in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of 105 reminisces on this terrible time when he quotes “he was the low-down sesesh dat would take what a poor runaway nigger had to give for his chance to get away, and den give him structions dat would lead him right into de hands of de patrollers” (Yetman 27). Anthony Dawson explains how a sesesh would trick an uneducated slave into giving up everything he had to escape and lead them back into captivity or even death. Life off of the plantation was no place for a slave to start a new life and progress in society. Progression was not an option for a black person and the white society had pawns sets all over the streets to make sure that it stayed that way.

jrc paper 2 to be edited

Arsenio Jordan

Before the civil war began slavery and white supremacy violence hindered any chance of African-American development. However after the civil war ended we find that slavery has now demolished and African-American labor takes its place. Black people were transitioning from slaves to labor workers. They now had the option to continue work on the fields and receive minimum wage or leave an enslaved society and start a new life. At the same time after the civil war we notice the motives for white supremacy violence transitioning from discipline to acts of terrorism. White supremacy violence could no longer be used in a sense of ownership towards a black person but rather a form of terrorism. These two transformations help us to understand how African-American development was viewed as a threat to white southerners. To elaborate more on this I will use texts from When I Was A Slave Edited by Norman Yetman and then I will go into Southern Horrors Edited by Jacqueline Jones Royster.

Between the years of 1861 and 1865 the civil war had already began and the Yankee soldiers started their mission of freeing slaves. However most slaves shunned the idea of leaving behind an enslaved lifestyle that offered free food and shelter. Not only did they have these resources but as slaves they developed their own self sustainable work culture. In the book When I Was A Slave Edited by Norman Yetman the reader will encounter recorded memoirs of former slaves being interviewed about their previous lives in captivity. Former slave Millie Evans was interviewed at the age of 88 in El Dorado, Arkansas where She explained growing up on the plantation as a rather pleasant experience. She quotes “ We had such a good time, and everybody cried when the Yankees cried out free” (Yetman pg.35). Millie also gives examples of a work culture that developed in the slave society when she says “We made vinegar out of apples” and “We used rotten vines for clotheslines” (Yetman pg.34). Together both quotes illustrates the reason why freed slaves wanted to return back to captivity as well as describe the work culture that developed amongst them.

During the times of slavery white supremacy violence were used on slaves as a disciplinary. If a slave refused to reach a masters expectations then they would be severely whipped or beaten. After the civil war ended the level of white supremacy violence changed as well as the reasons for it . Instead of being severely beaten or whipped, southern whites were now killing black people by lynchings which is the painful fatality of being hung at the neck from a tree. White supremacy violence could no longer be used in a sense of ownership towards a black person so it was then used as a form of terrorism. Although the white southerners wouldn't call it terrorism. Their alleged reason for the killing of black men was to punish them for supposedly raping their white women.

Ida B. Wells, an African-American journalist and newspaper editor would dig deeper into this theory of “protecting white honor” by mentioning certain cases that she found to be unreasonable and unlawful. One case dealt with Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell and Will Stewart. All three men had owned and operated “The People's Grocery” and were accused of wounding three white men in defense of their property being raided. Wells expresses her concerns when she mentions “By law the wounding of a white person was not punishable by death. None the less on March 9, lynch law prevailed” (Royster pg. 3). Wells reveals that even though wounding a white person is not punishable by death Those three black men became victims of a lynching which was followed by a programme, the act of filling hundreds of bullets into the lifeless bodies that had been hung.

Surely rape couldn't possibly be the reason for all of this black man named Benjamin Jackson who was accused of poisoning the water of a white family that would leave them ill and end in their death. Wells states “The white people concluded it was unnecessary to wait the result of the investigation – that it was preferable to hang the accused first and try him afterward” (Royster pg. 111). The three men were convicted without a fair trial and not only were they thrown in jail but were taken out to be lynched as well.

Because of the During the civil war we will notice that the whites had already formed groups such as the KKK (Klu Klux Klan) to terrorize the freed slaves that .the and mentions the benefits of having good foo It should be noted here that Slaves knew how to cook as well as sew their own clothing so here is distinct evidence of African-Americans development.Therefore The trend of former slaves working the fields for money began to arise. were part of the blueprints for building African-American development. Unfortunately white supremacy violence still lingered long after the civil war. Former slave masters were now considered as rich white southerners that were involved in mob groups specially designed to inflict violence and degrade African-Americans. Organizations and groups such as the Klu Klux Klan were one of many mob that targeted blacks. However. The development of African-Americans Society conditions and white supremacy violence were used as controlling mechanisms used by rich white southerners to slow and eventually end any form of African -American development. To elaborate more on this I will use texts from “When I Was A Slave Edited by Norman Yetman” and then I will go into “Southern Horrors Edited by Jacqueline Jones Royster”.

Before the civil war white men controlled society and designed it so that they could always remain superior in all aspects of a growing society over black people. Later in the text Mary goes on to explain how things suddenly changed after the civil war broke out and the Yankees freeing the slaves when she quotes ”Some were so glad to get back they cried, 'cause fare had been a mighty bad part of the time they were rambling around and they were hungry” (Yetman 4). Mary basically states that during the civil war slaves were freed by the yankees. Although money and food was hard to come by as well as shelter. This eventually made them come back to the plantation where they would work for minimum wage. This is important because it was society conditions that purposely led the now free slaves back to the plantation where resources remained.

Within this society controlled by whites ,there were also white people that roamed the streets after the main provider in their household went off to war. These white people would either trade with a runaway slave and actually lead them to freedom or trick them and turn them back into the hands of their slave owners. The ones that would trick a runaway slave was considered a sesesh which is basically a white person in favor of slavery and warring against the Yankees. Former slave Anthony Dawson who was interviewed in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of 105 reminisces on this terrible time when he quotes “he was the low-down sesesh dat would take what a poor runaway nigger had to give for his chance to get away, and den give him structions dat would lead him right into de hands of de patrollers” (Yetman 27). Anthony Dawson explains how a sesesh would trick an uneducated slave into giving up everything he had to escape and lead them back into captivity or even death. Life off of the plantation was no place for a slave to start a new life and progress in society. Progression was not an option for a black person and the white society had pawns sets all over the streets to make sure that it stayed that way.

critical thinking LIB

The poem that i wrote is specifically about human rights and my perspective on it. It displays my emotions and feelings towards human rights and the personal situations i have dealt with. The situations consists of negative and positive run ins that i have had with human rights. More specifically it includes my rights being denied and embraced. The poem itself is language  because i not only added proper but e-bonic phrases as well. I did this to completely and entirely give the reader a poetic representation of me.

Compare and contrast of diciplinary and pleasure in saddism

     In the books When i was a slave edited by Norman Yetman and Southern Horrors edited by Jacqueline Jones Royster  we will find a comparison between two black people that endured torture. Former slave Mary Reynolds was terribly tortured by her slave owner by being stripped and hung from her wrists. Her legs were then sprawled around a trunk and her feet were then tied together as she endured the worst beaten of her life. Years later after the civil war ended we find a free black man named Henry Smith also being tortured by burning of the stake to his body which lead to his death. Both cases deal with torture and sadistic pleasure but the comparison lies within shame. In Mary's case her torture was being used in a form of sadistic pleasure but it was behind closed doors, whereas in Henry's case his torture was linked to a sadistic enjoyment of torture openly.  It is interesting how private sadism torture and  public sadism can both share characteristics of torture but  differ in the intensity of violence on the account of an audience being present or not.

BIO for book

My name is Arsenio Jordan and i would like to give you a brief synopsis of my life in reference to language and human rights. I was born and raised in Queens , New york and my date of birth is February ,17 ,1989. I grew up in the heart of South side Jamaica which to many is a place infested with violence and poverty. This was the case with me also as i was surrounded by Police brutality as well as heavy gang activity. I was sort of put in a weird position growing up. Usually  the way you are brought up inside the home determines your actions and thought process outside of home. For me it Determined the type of people that i associated myself with.  This was not to be cool or to be in the "in crowd' but as a form of protection rather. In other words i had to put on this hard thuggish act so that i would not be the one picked on.  Ironically this only took place in school. Outside i was the intelligent young man my parents would hope for me to be.  it is then and only then when my rights were taken away from me.  I would go to the store and get something like a bag of chips or juice and the merchant would automatically think i was stealing. I have been patted down countless times for suspicion.
As far as language goes i have taken the many bits and pieces of my everyday life and expressed them in a poetic form.  I got interested in poetry around the age of 12.  The older i became the more i found it so astonishing to have the ability to write in a artistic manner.  I have three black and white notebooks filled front to back with poems about my view of life and how it relates to me.  This poem that i have written is sort of my speexh to young artists like myself.  I think the fact that so many people's rights are violated is because of the silence that accompanies it.  If we as the people are afraid to speak up about the problems of the world then they will not be fixed.

Factors explained from lynchings jrc

  In  the book"A Red Record by Ida B.Wells"  she uses and explains many factors that were created out of the lynchings of 1892-1894. One of those factors were "bear his burden" (Royster 78) which defined the oppression of African-Americans. Another keyword phrase that was mentioned was "Negro domination" (Royster 77) which  is the fear that white southerners had of a black person actually developing in a white ran society. In other words they feared African American dominance. Lastly there was a key word that Ida. B Wells explained which really ties of all these together and that was "Anarchy" (Royster 78) which is an absence of government, lawlessness and disorganization within a society. All of these became factors of the act of lynching towards African-Americans.

Blog assignment 3 The superior race jrc

              During the 1800's lynching was practiced by poor and rich white southerners It was a brutal execution of hanging blacks from a tree that followed a programme,the act of shooting bullets into the already dead bodies of African-Americans. It was a shocking revalation to white southerners to witness African -American growth in society. Who were once known as black "brutes" had now assembled organizations such as the Freedoms Bureau that established educational facilities and ways for black people to acquire their own land. This of course was unacceptable to white southerners because it meant they were losing power and control over black people. It tarnished their theory of "white honor". In this blog post i will use text from "Southern Horrors"edited by Jacqueline  Royster to discuss how white southerners went about gaining back their status as superior  over African-Americans.In the book "Southern Horrors" edited by Jacqueline Royster the reader will be introduced to Ida B.Wells , An African-American journalist and newspaper editor.
                    Ida B.Wells was also a woman that spoke out against lynching and racism among blacks and women. The  biggest lie white southerners used as a reason for lynching black people was that it was justice being served to their white women. Black men being the main target of this because they were accused of raping the white women. The allegations were very false because white women were particularly very fond of black men as well as being secretly involved with them. Ida B.Wells spoke on this in many of her editorials, giving different cases of this activity. One of those cases that she mentioned came from the "Cleveland Gazzette" in 1892 where the wife of a  white minister in Ohio accused a black man of rape. Mrs. Wells quotes the young lady when she says " He visited me several times. I did not care after the first time and had no desire to resist." (Royster pg.54). The woman confesses this to her husband in court along with the fact that her and the black man were intimate which sparked a marriage. White women knew that accusing a black man of rape would clear them of interracial infidelity, the act of a white person secretly being intimate with a black person behind their spouses back and then marrying them. According to the southern whites the key to gaining back power as the superior race is to humiliate ,degrade and inflict violent acts towards the black community. Accusing them of rape would serve as degradation. I feel that black men should have been more smart back in the 1900's because they knew that conversing with a white woman came with consequences.  I don't understand why black men would put themselves in a situation where the attention would be on them, giving the white southerners another opportunity to target african americans.

Writing workshop for assignment 2 paper jrc

 

           Arsenio Jordan

                            
                                    Before the civil war began slavery and white supremacy violence hindered any chance of African-American development. However after the civil war ended we find that slavery has now demolished and African-American labor takes its place. Black people were no longer considered slaves but rather as pension earners. They now had the option to leave a lifestyle of captivity and violence and start a new life or continue to work on the fields and receive minimum wage. Although most of the black people shunned the idea of leaving behind an enslaved lifestyle that offered free food and shelter. The trend of these former slaves now working for money was part of the blueprints for building African-American development. Unfortunately white supremacy violence still lingered long after the civil war and groups such as the Klu Klux Klan still terrorized black people. However white supremacy violence could no longer be used in a sense of ownership towards a black person but rather a form of terrorism. This served as a controlling mechanism to slow and eventually end any form of development in the negro society.  This sparked the fall of the reconstruction era.  To elaborate more on this I will first use text from “When I Was A Slave Edited by Norman Yetman” and then I will go into “Southern Horrors Edited by Jacqueline Jones Royster”.

                In the book “When I Was A Slave Edited by Norman Yetman”  the reader will encounter actual recorded memoirs of former slaves being interviewed about their previous life in captivity. Many of them shared their heartache of horrendous torture. However they also explained a self-sustainable beneficial lifestyle that would impact the decisions they made later. Former slave Mary Anderson was one of the many that were interviewed about life as a slave. At the age of 86 when interviewed she mentions the benefits of having good food and homemade clothing. This is definitely a factor of living in a self-sustainable work culture. The slaves made their own clothes so they never needed money to buy any. They also knew how to grow crops and cook their own food.

                                 This was all part of the work they had to do for their slave masters.  Then she describes everyday life on the plantation as not being so bad when she quotes “Slaves received good treatment from Marster and all of his family”(Yetman pg.2). Finally she goes in to explain how things changed suddenly after the civil war broke out and the Yankees freeing the slaves. The aftermath of that would be when she quotes ”Some were so glad to get back they cried, 'cause fare had been mighty bad part of the time they were rambling around and they were hungry” (Yetman pg.4). Mary basically states that after the civil war ended the slaves were free to go. Although money and food was hard to come by as well as shelter. This eventually made them come back to the plantation. This clearly represents the transition from slavery to labor work. It was the failure of trying to live in the outside world without the resources given that led slaves back to the field where they could get them back. Not to mention get paid for their work also.  

       

Brainstorming for published book

My plan is to establish a poem that explains how human rights connects to language. Poetry itself is a form of language and can be expressed through creative patterns of words. What i hope to do is construct a poem that clearly explains the relationship between  human rights and language using a made up story or an interpretation of an article that i have read. Since im heavily influenced by music and language is definitely apart of it. My poem will most likely be along the lines of freedom of speech or expression.

ROUGH DRAFT

We as young artists and the pictures we paint

Question if we have rights then why are there constraints?

The brushes that we stroke to create images of life

will mirror our words for wheres the freedom in rights?

Thats CRAZY!! (NEOLOGISM) prof.jerskey

We normally hear the word "crazy" defined as someone who is mentally unstable. While this is still the same meaning today in modern society; we began to see the term "crazy" transform into yet another meaning. In the hip-hop culture there are words taken from every day language and used as a way to describe something good. For instance when i hear a rap song on the radio that i tend to like i normally say " yo that's crazy, i like that". To others it may seem very unclear but keep this in mind. Einstein was considered to many people as a brilliant man. a person who is so advanced in his brain skills that he is no longer considered part of the "normal" population. In fact many people link his intelligence to insanity. Here  inteligence was considered crazy in a negative way. However now in terms of good music or the latest fashion the word "crazy" takes on another form , more specifically in one word, cool.

Law and human rights topic proposal

Arsenio Jordan                                                                           10/1/2011

I decided to choose freedom of expression as a topic choice for my research paper. I have always felt that we as human beings have been deprived of our right to express ourselves verbally and artistically. In my paper I will discuss an example of freedom of expression being denied. One coming from a news article explaining a political cartoon of Rio's City Manager Hector De La Rosa being pulled down from a building by the city at his request. The political cartoon displayed Hector De La Rosa as the “pied piper” who is then followed by Mayor Jan Vick and council members Constance Boulware and Jack Krebs who were depicted as rats. Apparently the cartoon had been up on a seinor citizen building for a long time and the people were enjoying it. Council women Janith Norman, serves on the senior center's governing board and she spoke to Rio's law firm about the situation.The law firm says “the city had no right to force the center to remove it”. The residents in the area even said they felt like their First Amendment rights were under attack. This is definitely a situation where freedom of expression is being denied.

Contradiction in the form of "trickery" ENG 101 JRC

During the times of slavery trickery contradictions played a big role within the society. In most cases there were times where slaves were tricked into believing one thing and then that thing would turn out to be completely different in the end. For an example in "The Memoirs Of When I Was A Slave" edited by Norman Yetman,there was a former slave by the name of Anthony Dawson that was interviewed at the age of 105 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In his interview he quotes "He was a low-down sesesh dat would take what a poor runaway nigger had to give for his change to get away, and then give him structions dat would lead him right into de hands of de parollers"(Yetman pg 26).In this quote Mr.Dawson explains the process of a slave being approached by a poor white man and told that if they traded everything they had then they would be given instructions to get escape slavery in return.Unfortunately the poor white men would take everything that a slave had given them and lead them back into captivity or death. This is definitely a contradiction in the form of a trick because the poor white folks would go against their own word when claiming that they would help the slaves escape. Instead they would do the exact opposite .