Andy Feeney
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This is a powerful, brilliantly written book that as a white person, I found extremely painful to read. Morrison is so skillful at conveying the horror and brutality of the slavery from which the main characters escape, and so open in judging most white people to be likely to continue such horrors, that I felt profoundly pessimistic upon completing the book. I wonder how many other white readers feel similarly?
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Alyse
I very much felt the same way and am finding it difficult to find fault with the book (which I am so glad to have read) because to be frank, I don't feel that I should have an opinion other than absolute disdain and loathing for the atrocious crimes committed by whites. I don't see how anyone could ever surmount or contextualise these crimes - there is just too much to forgive and I can't help but wonder whether that is not one of the very many poignant messages of the book.
Lynn
I am also white but did not feel profoundly pessimistic at the end of the book. I agree that the book judges white people but I believe it does so within the context of the period. White people at that time were "uncomfortable" with the notion of free blacks and were hostile towards abolition.
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