Sarah, Alice, and Dana



1830s Women slavery

Dana was segregated when she travels back of time of slavery. She was not called by her name; she was named nigger by her master and by some of her own race. According to Butler states that when Dana is seen Kevin by her employer, he makes offensive comments about the two creating “chocolate and vanilla porn!”(56). Dana is forced to suffer constant exploitation in both worlds, causing her freedom and respect.

Alice was beat, raped, and mentally and psychologically exploited and degraded by her master Rufus. Alice was willing to do anything for being her children free.  She also couldn’t stay with the man who really loved, because her master Rufus had a sickness emotional love for her. However, she couldn’t live any more these punishment and she was hanging by herself, after she tried to run away with her children, and Rufus took away her children.

Butler tells that “Weylin known just how far to push Sarah” (169). Her master Weylin had sold her three lovely children, but still Sarah has Carrie who Weylin left her.  Sarah lives for and protects Carrie. Sarah also was beat, and she was the “Mammy” of the house.

The most heroic in my view is Dana because she was discriminated based on race, class, and gender that still exist in our society today. Dana is isolate in society due to her social standing in the two time periods that she travels.  When she went back in the antebellum South, she was acting, but when she was beat, whipped, and worked hard, she discovered it was beginning to feel natural to her.  In her own time, she is degraded on the basis of her occupation as a writer, her second job as a “slave factory”, and also because she was married with white man.