Surely, if you credited one half the truths that are told you concerning the helpless millions suffering in this cruel bondage, you at the North would not help to tighten the yoke. You surely would refuse to do for the master, on your own soil, the mean and cruel work which trained bloodhounds and the lowest class of whites do for him at the South. "-The Rural Slave. Didn't matter if you were a white slave or a black slave, what your master said, went. Often times, cruel and unsual punishment were issued to slaves.
Perspectives on slavery I think everyone can agree that slavery is wrong. As Americans we can only look back with regret, at the acts that took place. Slaves were treated poorly they were beaten and were not well fed. Kids 12 and younger were slaves, families were separated, and slaves would even get beaten brutally and without mercy. As with every crime you need evidence, and to prove to those who are naïve and do not believe in what happened it is necessary.
“Relatively few people called for its immediate abolition, but many, including some slave owners, expressed real concern over its morality as its utility.” (Kolchin 65) The people questioning slavery inquired about the morality of using slaves for their labor purposes. They, like many, based a lot of their arguments off
To Be A Slave This book was a little but more unique than the other books that people are reading. There is no set character, place or setting. All the stories are broken up into different categories like, "The Auction Block" chapter where the stories that are gathered are about the slaves and how they were sold and taken away from their family. The places where most of the stories occur are in the south, places like Texas, Louisiana and Virginia. I think the plot or lesson that the stories are trying to get across is that slavery was an extremely horrible thing.
SLAVERY The historical diaries on slaves and how they were treated are not right. You can learn so many things from these diaries not just about slaves but the headmasters and abolitionists and what they went through with the slaves. You also learn that masters were abusing slaves and slaves did whatever their masters told them to do and the abolitionists where there to help them as much as they could such as freedom. Most slaves were probably more passive than active because they did not want to die all they wanted was freedom so why would they do something that has more consequences than from just slowing down on their work and getting whipped. The slave girl was really suffering in her story about what happened to her.
It would forever unfit him to be a slave. He will become unmanageable, and of no value to his master. As to himself, it could do him no good, but a great deal of harm. It would make him discontent and unhappy.”(Douglass 20) If I had heard that spoken about myself I do not think that I could have sat and listened to him. This was not the first time that Douglass had seen or heard the whites talk about the slaves that way, but it forever changed him.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin shined a light onto their cruel, abusive lives. Although this book made people feel sympathetic towards slave, it also made working-class whites aggressive towards slaves because they now felt that African Americans were competition in the working world. Because of this book people thought she fuelled this war. Even President Lincoln said, “Is this the little woman who made this great
Most masters had to learn how to become a slave owner, they had to learn the system, which most of the time meant that one must become a person of evil doing. Being a slave owners turned a good person into a bad person. A master was not allowed to be kind to his/her slave. They were not allowed to tech the slave anything or let them do as they pleased. “Master Hugh was amazed at the simplicity of his spouse, and, probably for the first time, he unfolded to her the true philosophy of slavery, and the peculiar rules necessary to be observed by masters and mistresses, in the management of their human chattels.” (Douglass, 95).
There was little communication between the handlers and the cargo. Sign language was used and sometimes the slaves guessed as to what they were supposed to do. The slaves were treated like cattle and the slave traders cared only about profit. As Harms states, the slave traders were taking a bigger risk than one may think. This took place during the age of the Enlightenment and people began to think more scientifically.
His master enjoyed hurting the slaves, which is what he hated the most. He loved getting food and clothes, but his master hated giving that stuff up. This went for slaves at almost all plantations, unless you were lucky enough to get a master who treated you better than most did. Sadly, he didn’t get treated as well as some slaves did at other plantations. Chapter 7 Quote 7: “Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her to these heavenly qualities” (Douglass, Page 43) In this quote its explaining how his mistress was a very good person to the poor and then when slavery started it stopped her from being able to do good deeds.