The Similarities Of Slavery And The Holocaust

In life, no one ever gets to choose how they are raised, their ethnicity or where they come from. Throughout history people from different cultural backgrounds have been mentally and physically demoralized because society said they didn’t fit the image of what a human is suppose to be. Slavery and the holocaust are two of the most horrific events in history that displayed people being treated less than human because of who they are. Although the holocaust and slavery shared the similarity of people enduring dreadful abuse by the hands of another; but they are different in the sense of the time period, ethnicity, and their circumstance.

While the holocaust only went on for twelve years (1933-1945), it had a huge impact on all the people who …show more content…
Africans were taken from their homeland by the Europeans then to be sold to an owner in America forever, which is called chattel slaves. Another form of slavery was called indentured servants. Indentured servants are people work for someone under a contract for a period of time, you don’t get paid but you get a free passage to a new country. Slaves were fed very well because they were like an investment to their owners. Slave owner paid a lot of money to buy slaves and order to get that money back, they forced their slaves to work in the fields picking cotton, which helped them receive more money on top what they paid for they’re slave. Many female slaves were raped by their master so they could produce more kids to do work around their owner’s house. In addition, some slaves were able to runaway from their slave owners by using the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was a passage that you follow to get up north so you could be free. Even though slave were able to escape some did get caught. If you caught trying to escape; you would be taken back to your master to be beaten or killed. However no one really escaped death in the holocaust. As for the slaves, their owners thought twice about killing their property that made them money, but the prisoner in the holocaust didn’t have that chance of life they were instantly killed with no …show more content…
Now Africans were forced to work in the plantations and do duties around the house. When they disobeyed their master or didn’t do their work you were punished by being whipped until blood began to shed, hanged, burned, branded, or even raped. These acts of punishment instilled fear and created a sense of authority, so that slaves would know their place. The holocaust didn’t just only torment Jews, but also tormented Jehovah’s witnesses, homosexuals, disable people and others. The inmates of the holocaust were also branded just like slaves, but slaves got burned into their skin with a marking or symbol, while in the holocaust a number was tattooed on your body which was a way they were recognized. The holocaust on the other hand, separated families and forced them to live with several other people in a one room apartment with barley any food to eat (which were called ghettos). The people who lived in the ghetto died from diseases, starvation, were shot or deported to an extermination camp (to be killed in the gas chambers).Despite both parties circumstance and setting, they both suffered and died because of who they were.

In conclusion, it is evident that not one these events in history triumph over the other and they both have place in history for a reason. While some of the differences between the holocaust and slavery are apparent the