Before the 13th amendment, Slave labor without a doubt transpires throughout history as one of the many attributes to receive mass attention when the idea of brutality comes to mind. Frederick Douglass, a former slave himself, goes through intentions to understand everyone’s oppression in the establishment of slave labor. Although the source of economy had to be based around cheap slave labor for a benefit of profit, the idea taken into consideration to also treat slaves terribly was sickening. Therefore, Douglass can absolutely claim that amongst many people involved with legal slave labor faced victimization through dehumanization, power imbalance, and corruption through advantages of oppression.
Dehumanization alone points out the large amount of brutality slaves were involved in and even witnessed. Being born into servitude meant two things, the removal of rights and the separation of families. During the middle passage, As …show more content…
The power of imbalance plays a huge role in the work conditions of those who were non-slaves which led to a lack of labor for non-slaves who needed a job to provide for their own. Bacon’s Rebellion (1679), a group of individuals had jobs that did not want to be taken away which resulted in an idea that slavery on its own affected those who were struggling to defend their values to work. In My Bondage, My Freedom, mostly every slave could do absolutely any job such as cooking, nursing, and countless amounts of labor that benefited the slave holder to steer away from even spending more on a white working man when they were able to spend little amount of money for cheap labor. “A free white man, holding no slaves, in the country. . . —called generally by them, in derision, “poor white trash.” (Pg. 228), shaped the identity of many impecunious white men to lack in profit as “no people could become very wealthy without
Dehumanization alone points out the large amount of brutality slaves were involved in and even witnessed. Being born into servitude meant two things, the removal of rights and the separation of families. During the middle passage, As …show more content…
The power of imbalance plays a huge role in the work conditions of those who were non-slaves which led to a lack of labor for non-slaves who needed a job to provide for their own. Bacon’s Rebellion (1679), a group of individuals had jobs that did not want to be taken away which resulted in an idea that slavery on its own affected those who were struggling to defend their values to work. In My Bondage, My Freedom, mostly every slave could do absolutely any job such as cooking, nursing, and countless amounts of labor that benefited the slave holder to steer away from even spending more on a white working man when they were able to spend little amount of money for cheap labor. “A free white man, holding no slaves, in the country. . . —called generally by them, in derision, “poor white trash.” (Pg. 228), shaped the identity of many impecunious white men to lack in profit as “no people could become very wealthy without