Sambo, the typical plantation slave, was docile but irresponsible, loyal but lazy, humble but chronically given to lying and stealing; his behavior was full of infantile silliness and his talk inflated with childish exaggeration. His relationship with his master was one of utter dependence and childlike attachment; it was indeed this childlike quality that was the very key to his being. Although the merest hint of Sambo's “manhood” might fill the Southern breast with scorn, the child “in his place,” could be both exasperating and loveable8 (p. 82).
The Odyssey is about Odysseus's 10-year struggle to return home to his wife.
survival of the fittest, in other words the Darwinian evolutionary theory. hope this helps!
There is a lot of opposition to the Fugitive Slave Act of
1850 in the Northern states, which are vehemently against slavery and is the
destination of many escaped slaves from the South. Some states tried to nullify
the Federal law, notably Wisconsin Supreme Court and Vermont legislature. Of
course, abolitionists are vehemently against the law.
