Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Wed, 2016-01-20 15:13
When this second child is born to Sam Fathers' mother, and her husband is its father, the story seems to suggest that Doom's solution to the problems of race, slavery and sexual rivalry has provided at least a form of 'justice' in the end. He is, however, born into slavery, like his parents.
Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Wed, 2016-01-20 15:08
The "boy with a branch" and the "another boy with a branch" have distinct jobs from the rest of the tribe, personally attending to Doom by providing shade and chasing away bugs (354).
Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Wed, 2016-01-20 10:29
When first seen, these "three white men" are guarding the grounded steamboat, planning to claim it for their own; they are willing to trade it for ten of Doom's slaves (351).
