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Before the idea of America --> anything could have been shaped, anything could have come out of it.
Possibility of harmonious coexistence, collaboration --> share of an apple (Jacob/the Blacksmith) + Lina/Rebekka, + Willard and Scully deliver Sorrow’s baby

- Where did people come from and why? They were no servants, but prostitutes, children… (women in the boat with Rebekka)
Poverty in the streets, choice between prison and transportation. White slaves, called indentured servants, people who traded their freedom for their passage to America.
"The suggestion has always been that they could work off their passage in seven years generally, and then they would be free," says Morrison. "But in fact, you could be indentured for life and frequently were. The only difference between African slaves and European or British slaves was that the latter could run away and melt into the population. But if you were black, you were noticeable."
Whites could be slaves too.

- Vulnerable without the outside : colleagues, institutions, religion, workers… “How can you be an individual?” Privacy + belong to a community?
Filiation, abandonment, search for love. Create a family. (Florens, Lina)

- People = economic engine
Sorrow = enigmatic and wild

- Relationships: from suspicion to mutual affection --> Rebekka and Lina
Motherless child and childless mother --> Florens and Sorrow/Rebekka
Willard and Scully = indentured servants