Lucinda MacKethan asserts that Douglass moves from the discussion of the overseers’ swearing to the “unmeaning jargon” of the sorrow songs to indicate “their powerlessness in relation to the power residing in the profanity of overseers” (59-60).
Lucinda MacKethan asserts that Douglass moves from the discussion of the overseers’ swearing to the “unmeaning jargon” of the sorrow songs to indicate “their powerlessness in relation to the power residing in the profanity of overseers” (59-60).