The hands of the blacks review
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The document provides several explanations for why the hands of black people are lighter than the rest of their bodies. These include that their hands became bleached from washing, they only wet their hands before birth in cold water, they always had their hands folded in prayer, their hands were tied together while being baked in kilns, God made their hands lighter to prevent dirtying foods, and their hands were lighter from bending over to pick cotton. However, the document notes that some of these explanations are nonsense or lies.
The hands of the blacks review
- 1. THE HANDS OF THE BLACKS OTELL WHO SAYS THE FOLLOWING EXPLANATION WHY THE HANDS OF THE BLACKS ARE LIGHTER THAN THE REST OF THEIR BODIES
- 2. OTheir hands became bleached with all that washing.
- 3. OThe black were made very early in the morning, and at this hour the water in the lake was very cold, so they only wet the palms of their hands and the soles of their feet before dressing and coming into the world.
- 4. OThey always went about their hands folded together, praying in secret.
- 5. OThey decided to make blacks. They got hold of some clays and pressed it into some second hand moulds. And to bake them, of the creatures, they took them to heavenly kilns. Because they were in a hurry, they hung them in the chimneys and their hands were tied together.
- 6. OGod made their hands lighter like that so they wouldn’t dirty the foods that they made for their masters, or anything else that they were ordered to do that had to be kept quite clean.
- 7. OGod made blacks because they had to be. He made it so that the palms would exactly like the palms of other men.
- 8. OBlack hands are lighter because they spent their lives bent over, gathering the white cottons of Virginia.
- 9. Vocabulary 1. a section or passage taken from a longer work such as a book, movie, musical composition, or document 2. Nonsense or lies 3. Oven for ceramics 4. Grasping 5. Rough skinned