Many of the articles try to convince the audience that free laborers had much worse conditions than slaves. In the excerpt from Fitzhugh’s “Cannibals All”, he mentions that the end of the day even though a free laborer is free, he has to go home and continue to work by taking care of his family; meanwhile, a slave is free of work until the next morning, since he is fed and taken care of by his master. This is a very strong point, since a free laborer never stops working and is forced to work or else the worker and his family won’t be able to afford food, or shelter. Another strong point is from Flora Tristan’s “Laborers in London”, Tristan mentions that “the slave is sure of his bread all his life, and of care when he is sick”, in comparison
