Genre
Nonfictional Novel
Setting and Context
The book is written in the context of slavery in the American Rice Swamps.
Narrator and Point of View
Third-person point of view
Tone and Mood
Empathetic, dismal, gloomy and aggrieved
Protagonist and Antagonist
The story's protagonist is Charles Manigault, an individual gathered chronological accounts and narratives.
Major Conflict
The major conflict occurs when the white planters in the Southern Coast use slaves for monetary gains. The blacks are exposed to hard labour and hard life because they toil without paying for rice plantation owners.
Climax
The slaves became defiant and hated their masters to the core. When the Yankee troops arrived, the slaves helped them by providing vital information on defeating the planters.
Foreshadowing
The initiation of slavery in the southern coast foreshadowed the hidden goals of a capitalist economy which aimed at profit generation with little regard for human suffering.
Understatement
N/A
Allusions
The story alludes to human suffrage during the slavery period.
Imagery
The images of the rice plantation and the procedures it entailed provide imagery of the cost intensiveness of the venture.
Paradox
The paradox of a capitalist economy is rampant throughout the book.
Parallelism
There is parallelism between planter capitalism and free labour capitalism.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
Technology is personified with human abilities in terms of disruption of the norms.
