Dunn And Parent: A Comparative Analysis Of Slavery

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In this comparative essay, we will discuss how Dunn and Parent were Marxists as they analyze slavery. They both talk about the process of how natives switch from indentured to slaved. The difference is how Dunn was more about how slavery was morally bad, while Parent is more about how slavery was calculated moves of great-planter seeking to attain wealth and power through the labors and lands. So we will see how they both started talking about origin of slavery to branches of their own interpretation of how it ends up to be. Dunn talks bitterly as he talks about how English planters turned "beautiful islands almost uninhabitable" (xxiii). The reason why he is bitter is because a habit of degrading the soil for a few quick crops and then moving

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