![]() ![]() Moses himself knew, by admitting to the killing of Mary Turner and presenting himself before the law, choosing that over trying to run away and escape, that he was to face further horrors and no justice from a system that had robbed him for the life of his freedoms and his basic dignity as a man. In Lessing’s ‘The Grass is Singing’ it is easy to see Moses as the representation of the repressed black man, who, in spite of the white man’s need for him, nevertheless is the object of despising and distancing, and much hatred and the systematic repression of his basic human rights, for the economic and social gain of the white man.
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