Waller. When Dele was consoling his mother during childbirth, she says I won't let anything bad happen to you. That says a lot, although it could easily be overlooked. This says that this woman knows that in the life of this newborn baby girl she will have many difficulties and will suffer immensely, but she will do her best to protect her. As a slave, the little girl will be forced to endure dehumanizing things and be subjected to feelings of inadequacy, but she will have to suffer for it in order not to be killed or sold. Dele talks to the unborn baby saying he will do his best not to have to take so much, but he still knows that due to the color of her skin there isn't much he can do to protect her. So Mr. Waller's desire for a slave boy shows the greed that was slavery. The woman, although capable of producing more slaves, was not as good as an able-bodied male. The truly cruel part comes when he takes the little girl deeming her useless, putting fear in the hearts of the mother and Dele for what he might do to the little girl. Dele's initial reaction was to beg him to spare the little girl as he appears to begin undressing, unbuttoning the top of his shirt. This shows that the slave master perhaps approached or raped Dele inappropriately in the past, although it was not actually expressed in the film. His offer