Prejudice

One example of predjudice in Elijah of Buxton, is how the settlement is governed. The settlement does not take charge of their own town, Chatham does. Chatham is a town that's a few miles away from Buxton. Chatham is almost all white, that Means that almost all the salespeople, farmers, and fishermen are white. The largest example of predjudice though, is the government. There is one sherriff, who takes charge of almost everything,and obviously this sheriff is white. Everything in Buxton IS influenced by white people, who made up their rules. Whenever something goes wrong, the people of Chatham are almost always trying to blame it on the blacks. In one part of the book, a runaway horse is found in Buxton. The horse had to be hurried to the sheriff, and cannot be kept or the whites will start trying to blame it on the settlement folks. The adults were worried that a rumor would spread that they had stolen it, and they would get in trouble. The whites judge the blacks as thieves and troublemakers, before they even lay their eyes on them. This is horrible discrimination and prejudice. The people of Buxton are seperate from Chatham, so they should be able to govern themselves and be free of discrimination.

J.S.