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Caruso ENGL 1102 05 April 2012 A proposal of freedom From the time that the nation was founded, Americans were deeply divided over slavery (Maltz 4). After the Missouri compromise of 1820, slavery became legal in the South America. Slave owners had much more power over slaves; they considered slaves as their properties purchased for goods and money. The treatment of slaves was generally characterized by brutality, degradation, and inhumanity. Whippings, executions, and rapes were commonplace. Slaves were punished by whipping, shackling, hanging, beating, burning, injuring, and imprisonment. Punishment was most often made in response to disobedience or perceived infractions, but sometimes abuse was carried out simply to reassert the dominance of the master or overseer over the slave.
The life of slaves was tough and difficult. A field slaves day was filled with hard work from sunrise to sunset, and during harvest; they worked an eighteen-hour day. Slaves has monthly allowances of corn

meal and salt herrings and yearly clothing allowances which sometimes included: two linen shirts, one pair linen trousers, one jacket, one pair of trousers for the winter, one pair of stockings and one pair of shoes. Their houses consisted of wooden shacks with dirt floors which housed two families, which many times were located in damp areas. They did not have beds or furniture. The beds were made of straw and old rags boxed in with boards, much like a stall in a barn, and a single blanket. This is a fictional novel which tells a story of slavery during 1820s in the South America. Slaves were treated like animals. They blazed the trails, cleared the forests, built the dwellings, tilled the land, planted the seed, harvested the crops, dug the ore, kept the livestock, nursed the children, created and maintained the wealth of the New Worldwithout pay (Zaneeducate, The Slavery and Plantation Life). This novel aims to exposure the real life of slaves in the south after the

Wu 2 Dongling Wu Ms. Caruso ENGL 1102 05 April 2012 Missouri compromise and to criticize the inhumanity of landowners, or more deeply, to evaluate the American politics during that time. Since slavery is the main topic in this book, the protagonists are a loyal black slave and his peaceful wife. Both of them were field slaves worked for a rich landowner. One day, the black slave was accused of killing his owners daughter. The owner was extremely mad and killed the slaves two children as a revenge for his daughters death. His wife decided to find the real murder a monster created by Victor Frankenstein. She met Victor Frankenstein on her way for the monster, so they started chase the monster together. Finally, they found the monster. The wife died in the fight with the monster, and then Victor killed the monster and took its body back to the court. Unfortunately, the slave died because of the sadness. In the end, Victor Frankenstein committed all the crimes. The intended audiences will be students, who like to know American slavery, researchers who want to know facts and truth of slaves life, and foreigners who need some knowledge of American social issues. International students will be one of the main intended targets. The novel will be easy to read and understand for people with different reading levels, especially for the new international students. In todays book market, most of the historical books require a lot of English reading skills, and are often too profound and too complicated for foreign students to well understand. This novel could be a good start to those students when they first want to study American history and social issues. Furthermore, it will significantly let students get more involved in the American society. Until November 14, 2011, the number of international students at colleges and universities in the United States increased by five percent to 723,277 during the 2010/11 academic year, according to the Open Doors report, which is published annually by the Institute of International

Wu 3 Dongling Wu Ms. Caruso ENGL 1102 05 April 2012 Education (IIE) in partnership with the U.S. Department of States Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. These strong increases have significant economic impact on the United States, as international students contribute more than $21 billion to the U.S. economy. According to that, international students are going to be a powerful potential market which it definitely worth to invest (Press Release). One other main target will be the American high school and college students. In the public highschool, students who take English IV are required to read several famous novels, and <Frankenstein> is one of them. The same characters in the <Frankenstein> are also in this novel, such as Victor Frankenstein and the monster. Students are more likely to buy a book which well relates to books that they have read before.

Works Cited

Wu 4 Dongling Wu Ms. Caruso ENGL 1102 05 April 2012 Maltz, Earl M. Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery. Lawrence, Kan.: University of Kansas, 2007. 4. Print. "Press Release." International Student Enrollments Increase in 2010/11. Web. 09 Apr. 2012. <http://www.iie.org/Who-We-Are/News-and-Events/Press-Center/PressReleases/2011/2011-11-14-Open-Doors-International-Students>. YouTube. Dir. Zaneeducate. The Slavery and Plantation Life. YouTube, 07 July 2010. Web. 09 Apr. 2012. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TazcNfmOxJk>.