The Longest Memory Lesson Plan

Through Sander Senior's diary, what do we learn about how the sexual assault was handled by Mr. Whitechapel?

When Sanders Senior first rapes Cook, he tells her she can take whatever clothes of his dead wife’s in exchange for keeping silent. Cook replies she wants permission to marry Whitechapel immediately or she will tell Mr. Whitechapel what happened. After she and Whitechapel are married, Sanders rapes Cook a second time. This time, she breaks her silence. Sanders is woken the next morning by a confrontation from Cook, Whitechapel, and Mr. Whitechapel. For a moment he considers denying the accusations - "the word of a white man is worth that of how many slaves?" -...