... slave culture. "Slavery was the root of all evil" (Nash, 495). Their beliefs were undoubtedly magnified when the Southerners response was that slavery is a "necessary evil." They attacked the morality of Southerners defenses, claiming that the practice is against all morals that religion preaches. A migrant traveling through Missouri into Kansas recalls, "the "morals" of the slaveholding Missourians moving into Kansas ... morals and value system. "These values included a respect for the rights of people, tempered by the rule of law; individual enterprise, balanced by the concern for one's...

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... " of slavery without jeopardizing his reader's "conviction of the truthfulness of the picture." "I had acted according to his orders. He had told me to look for a master, and I had been to look for one." The master is so disarmed by his slave's nervy reply to his bullying question that he can only answer that "he did not tell me to go to ... , where the slave uses his wits to emphasize that he is and must be his own master, Brown testifies to a key element of real-world, day-to-day master-slave relationships. Only rarely did a violent physical confrontation resolve the tensions that motiv...

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... of slavery, using it more as a metaphorical device than as an issue to make real comment on. For instance, the origin of Jane's inheritance passes her by, as does the morality of Rochester's. It is clear that colonialism is a theme used to move the plot forward and to characterise key figures, not to critique the racial prejudices of the day. Parallels ... time. It is almost that the British can do no wrong, as Susan Meyer suggests when she writes about comparing Rochester with 'a sultan' not a 'white-skinned British slave master'. She says, 'by associating Rochester's po...

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