Massa Tom Lea represents all the beliefs and values of the Rational Era because he finds truth
through reason, importance through his individual self, and he believed that the idea of Patriotism
grows over time.
Massa Tom Lea is obviously the Devil in disguise. A rapist slave-owner who didn 't care about
anyone
but himself. I guess thats all that was around back in the day with most white slave-owners. He
valued importance in his individual self and whoever worked for him got nothing but bad
treatments. Chicken George on the other hand, got Second-to-none treatment from him because he
was his son, and he
was bringing him in the most money in the fastest amount of time. Because of his self-
centeredness, he often betted against a rich English Cockfighter,
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As you would assume, things would start going his way again, but only until the Emancipation
Proclamation was signed. Between his bad times; when everything seemed to be going as well as it
possibility could, he was really finding out a lot about himself. He was raping his slaves as usual,
and having kids left and right. This period really started to shed some light on his cold-hearted body
and proved that he had a little more to offer, than hatred towards others.
By a lot of the actions that he did throughout the story. He found out a lot about himself and the
way
he treated other people towards the end of the story, and he found himself through reason and
belief. He found himself very important to the world and was very high up on the list of respectable
people throughout the story. Importance in the individuals did play a very big role through Massa
Tom Lea, and throughout the story. He believe that people were inherently good and that they
passed down things; one from another. His family has had slaves for a long time and i believe that
that is where his belief came