University of Colorado, Denver

• ETST 2155

• Lillian Taylor Dennis Green ETST 2155-001 13 November 2018 Ten Generations of Bondage, Eleven Generations of Faith Three characters of interest within Ten Generations of Bondage, Eleven Generations of Faith, by Johari Ade, are Sarah Harris, Bessie Mae, and Charley Lewis. Sarah Harris had been born outside the period of slavery, and thus showed no fear toward white supremacy nor could understand why her family members were so timid around white people. Sarah was a fiercely independent child, unafraid of many things her family had been conditioned to fear. She could not envision a world where black people were lynched and murdered for just existing within white spaces. Bessie had been born as a lightskin child, and was subject to colorism within her own community, who labeled her as uppity and stuck up. Her experience is unique, as she was not only alienated by the white community, but by the surrounding black community as well. Charley Lewis’ story is especially heart wrenching, as the author, Johari Ade, discovers he was most likely a subject of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments, and his family was never able to recover his body and have a proper memorial for him. His story illustrates the reality for thousands of black men during that time period and brings to light the inhumanity of the medical field. The ideology of the “Wolobalani” is based in the idea that black people were truly the only “blended” race to exist within America during Kitty’s era. Members of certain tribes, such as the Ga, Wolof, Mandinka, and Fulani were abducted from their homelands and forced to live and “breed” together. This b