Slavery started when Dutch traders brought the first African slaves to Jamestown, who nonetheless were in North America at first generally treated as servants. It happened from years ago; however it still has effects until now on the black people. It appears in writings , way of talking , heritages as well. In everyday use Alice Walker uses an example of slavery in her writing and that reflects her point of view in an indirect way to the readers; therefore Dee is one of the main character who illustrates slavery through the story. Dee thinks that slavery is her black history that she should be effaced no matter what will be the consequences of it.
Dee's name has a heritage's origin that belongs to slavery though. Owing to Dee's grandmother name, who has a slavery origin from her white owner who named her ''Dee'' after her name .Mama named Dee after her grandmother's name as a kind of admiration while Dee saw it a scornful print in her life to take a name that
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As she thinks that it's a choice and black people could escape from it if they want. Although she changed her name to Wanjero Leewanika Kemanjo to become a pure African girl who doesn't have any relevance to the white people. She wears a urban style clothes which was too bright for a girl who's raised in poverty, but she changes her semblance to proof for herself that she can do what comes to her mind in a blink without hard effort. She gets the feeling that managed her to a high self confidence level, that gives her the ability to act unique and arrogant in front of everyone even her family members who are supposedly should be part of her. When she comes to visit her mother and sister, she wears elegant and garnish yellow and orange dress; she was holding a camera and starts to take photos for her house as a foreigner to believe firmly that she became another girl who doesn't belong to Dee