12 Years A Slave Anthropology

Slavery must Go Is it okay to just survive rather than live? 12 Years a Slave is about Solomon Northup. Solomon Northup was an African American freeman that was ripped from his family and declared a run-away slave. The “Germantown Friends Protest Slavery” is about the reason slavery should not be tolerated amongst any human being. These two things have many differences as similarities. In 12 Years a Slave Solomon Northup was snatched by two white men who posed as future business partners. In class, we talked about people like this and they became like bounty hunters. When they took these African Americans, they did not care if they were free or not. In “Germantown Friends Protest against Slavery” they also talked about African Americans being …show more content…
Bass says that laws change and those who does things just because the law says it is right are slaves to the law/government (McQueen). On the other hand, in “Georgetown Protest Against Slavery” they focus more on the religious and moral side of things. They acknowledge that you should not do what you would not want done to yourself. They clearly advocate that capturing people is not the godly way. For that it is the duties of Christians to bring this act to an end (Henderich). In the film, it not only shows a man being taken from his family, but also a single mother being detached from her kids. While the document only focuses on a man being taken from his family. Although the document as well as the film compare masters to slaves they do it in very different ways. The film compares the master and slaves by acknowledging that the masters are slaves to the government. The document highlighted that a slave has a right to fight for their freedom just like masters fought for their property. Masters hated when someone interfered with their property and they would do whatever it took to try to keep their