As portrayed by Phillips, are the white slavers in "Crossing the River" fundamentally evil people, or are they victims of the system in which they live?
Does Phillips condemn slavery as a white institution?
How might a white child growing up in the antebellum South, where he or she is taught that slavery is the natural order of things, come to judge slavery as an evil thing?
How do modern western perceptions differ from those commonly held in England at.....