The most interesting part of the book so far to me has been the first part of Chapter 2.  This part of the book stuck out to me more than others, partly because I haven't finished reading to Chapter 6 quite yet, but mostly because I've always grown up thinking that slavery, as well as racism, were both really only huge problems in the United States.  Now reading this book plus what we learned in class on Tuesday has really just opened my eyes and helped me to see the topic from a whole different perspective.  Now that I'm aware that slavery actually was a much larger movement in other parts of the world, it's really an eye opener because I grew up thinking that slavery was so bad in America, when in reality, it was very minute compared to other parts of the world.  Also, I have honestly never known that slavery started in other places long before it ever reached America and it was actually introduced to the Native Americans by Columbus on one of his voyages from Europe to Hispanolia around 1501.  Now that I've said all of that, you can obviously tell that I'm not typically a big history person, as far as my knowledge about all of this goes, but I am finding learning all of these new facts very interesting.  Now, speaking of being interesting, what really grabbed my attention in Chapter 2 was when AUTHOR started the chapter with this quote: "I am black.  That is my only fault.  If I could whiten myself you would see, with the will of God, an increase in your wealth."  This quote means so much but is so simple at the same time.  The color of our skin has always been such an important detail in just life in general since probably as far back as history has been documented.  I interpreted this quote as an African American who's fed up with being judged and mistreated by people based on their skin color.  The quote seems to have a patient, yet angry tone at the same time and is trying to get the message across that if people could just be accepting for a second and look past skin color then they would see that this person saying the quote is an amazing person and deserves respect no matter what their skin color might be.  Why has skin color always been such an issue, even back in the 1700's?  Why would someone mistreat a human being the way some of these people were treated based solely on skin color?  I've always felt this way, that everyone should be accepted and treated with respect, no matter if they're black, white, yellow, red, or green.  So, I just thought it was cool that this quote was in our book and it really hit home with me and stuck out in my mind, even if our reading assignment was not really mainly about race.