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1) Ike repudiated his inheritance for many reasons. The catalyst of this is Sam Fathers. After Ike's parents died he was basically taken under the advisement of Sam Fathers he built Ike's belief foundation. He taught Ike to respect the land and that nobody could own it, also that slavery was evil. From this we can see why Ike repudiated the land. Ike saw the land as evil and tainted because of what happened on it. After he read the ledgers he could deduce that LQCM had committed incest and miscegenation. This he saw as a grave sin and that there was no chance in cleansing the land. Also, he still had the belief (which carried over from Sam Fathers) that land could not be owned since God created it for all beings therefore the land belonged to everyone. And of course there is the obviousness that generations of slaves worked and died on that plantation and the sin of bondage could not be cleansed from the land. Ike's repudiation wasn't a trivial event, it influenced another parts of the novel. For example in the story "Go down, Moses" Samuel Beauchamp gets kicked off the plantation by Carothers Edmonds because he is caught stealing and he eventually gets killed. Aunt Mollie blames Carothers for doing this because she thinks th
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Approximate Word count = 1662
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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