Children of Blood and Bone: Chapter 22.

Chapter 22: Amari

I pause for a moment, aghast at the number of them filling the narrow path. Before today, I caught only glimpses of the laborers brought in to staff the palace always pleasant, clean, groomed to Mother’s satisfaction. Like Binta, I thought they lived simple lives, safe within the palace walls. I never considered where they came from, where else they might have ended up, “Skies…” It’s almost too hard to bear the sight. Mostly diviners, the laborers outnumber the villagers by hordes, dressed in nothing but tattered rags. Their dark skin blisters under the scorching sun, marred by the dirt and sand seemingly burned into their beings. Each is hardly more than a walking skeleton.

This could be compared to the way that Black Africans were treated in The Power of One film. The Power of One was directed by John G. Avildsen, it was based around the way that the Black Africans were treated by the Afrikaners. The Black Africans were forced into prisons, forced into slavery and were beaten if they didn't follow the rules or their instructions. The diviners are treated almost the same way the Black Africans were. The diviners are forced into the stock which can be taken as the slave trade. Each diviner is forced into labor and abuse by the guards.