Social Experiments and their connection to the book of Negroes

      The Milgram's research is the research of how people playing the role of the "teacher" was to ask questions to people playing the role of "learner". Whenever the learner was unable to answer a question asked by the teacher, the teacher would administer shocks of increasing magnitude to the learner. The shocks that was administered to the learners eventually went to as high as 450V which would have killed the person.
       The Stanford prison experiment was one that asked some students to play the role of guards and others to play the role of prisoners. After given the time and space, the guards abused the prisoners so much that the prisoners rioted to break free. The things that alarmed people was that the people playing these roles did not know each other, yet they willing used the power they were bestowed on the other people.
       Connecting to the book of Negroes, we can see that when people have power over others, they tend to do cruel things. This is one of the reasons slave trade was so popular, the locals saw their kind taken, but because they were given control over them. Not only did they not help their kind to escape, but worked more hard to contain and abuse them. This is the same as how the sailors on the ship did not care about the death of the slaves, they had the power of controlling the lives of the slaves, so they would rather have them just die then care for them.
 

And my story waits like a restful beast

I think that the title is very fitting. It describes the fierce character of Aminata and also comments on what her story is like. Her story is one that is very large and possibly full of things the British in the story would not have imagined. So restful would mean that Aminata has not been able to tell her story yet, and that creates the contrast she has with the abolitionists. The abolitionists don't wants her to tell just what they want, but Aminata wants the public to know about the full and true story of what she has experienced.