The Historical Twist of American Politics

Women were viewed as being remote from God in this self-proclaimed prophet's world "When a Methodist girlfriend knocked at the door and announced that she had been sent to Jesus, Matthias whipped her, told her God did not talk to girls, and sent her home to her father" (Johnson and Wilentz 100).

In Prince Among Slaves, we be treated to the life story of a former Muslim prince, matchless of power, wealth, and education who was sold into slavery aft(prenominal) experiencing a war defeat. Ibrahima's story from prince to slave and then, by a lead of fate that reunites him with a man whose life he was trusty for saving as a prince, a free man, is one of courage, strength, and spirit. In revealing the struggles and survival of Ibrahima, we get a pick up of the South that definitely demonstrates that the North and South were twain wads with two cultures. In the South, middle-class values did not exist. There was the stamp down class and the slave class with those in-between of little conditional relation to society other than as white slaves, tradesman, or operate providers. Where religion is concerned, Christianity held sway in the North while in the South Baptists, Presbyterians, and Methodists ruled the day. Ibrahima recognizes the hypocrisy of religion, something that did pervade Northern and grey borders. As he said to Griffin "I prescribe you, the [New] Testament very good law; you [Christians] no look on it; you no pray often enough; you greedy after money.

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time we clearly see two variant peoples and two different cultures in comparing North and South, there were qualities that existed among both people and cultures, like that of ostracism of certain social classes. We see the idolize engendered in the Southern culture when Ibrahima is fighting for freedom. As say "The effect of Ibrahima, ?their travelling emancipator,' and his Boston cronies would be ?to excite the Negroes in the southern states to rise and massacre their masters. . . . Has [Ibrahima] not already inspirited the desire for liberty into 15 of Mr. Foster's slaves and several others?" (Alford 148).

Alford, Terry. Prince Among Slaves. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977.

religion. [But] you regard more than land, more neegurs; you make neegur work hard, make more cotton. Where you find dat in your law?" (Johnson et al. 81-2).

Johnson, Paul E., and Sean Wilentz. The kingdom of Matthias. New York: UP of Oxford, 1994.

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