"I had now written my name on a public document, and I was a person, with just as much right to life and liberty as the man who claimed to own me." pg. 274
This was the first instance were Aminata was urged to regain her freedom. At this time there was few memories that she remembers of her freedom. She is considered a person, a common theme in the novel is dehumanization. The slave captors would dehumanize the slaves to make them feel that they are not people, and that they had no similarities with them. The slave captors would then have no sympathy for them, and would continue to make them work in such hard conditions.
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