When I read, The Middle Passage, the impact of what I had read did not fully set in, until I was sitting in class and we began to discuss what had happened in detail. I think this was due to the fact that I was trying to read all the selections and hurried myself through them. It is strange to me that this was allowed to happen to people, I understand that times are different, but it seems that we treated animals better than the people who were torn from their homes and families. I really liked the structure of this writing and felt it added to the impact of what Hayden was writing about. I can also see why this is a part of American Literature and finally feel like I have read something I can engage with. The one thing that has stayed with me is that John Quincey Adams went and defended the slave traders, this is hypocrisy in every sense of the word. How can one person fight for the rights of a nation and yet deny the rights of all the people within it, it is so strange how a nation can justify some things and be blind to others.
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