Slavery or Freedom Pick Your Poison
What is it that makes a person emancipated? Is being free something we could visualize or even grasp the concept of , or is it a just an idea? If the concept of freedom exist, then slavery exist. They are different sides of the same coin however, both terms are misleading. The ability to do whatever you want doesn’t exist without suppressing someone 's else freedom. A person is not free unless he or she chooses so on his own; both are therefore, a state of mind. Slavery has been a thread in the fabric of civilization since the beginning of time . It is not in human nature to enslave another human, right? We can assume slavery is man made, therefore the idea of freedom is also so . This concept can better …show more content…
He goes on to say " Now we could run from the master 's land to the open land and back...". As time passed and both Bob and Primus grew older, things changed. Primus begin working hard in the field and. Bob talks about an evening with Primus by saying " he was lying on the scrabble outside our cabin, his arms worn out, but not his mind". He talks about how during the time when they would build houses how he would feed his insults to his anger, "soaking up the cuts and bruises and spit until the bark house wasn’t just what he wanted, but was what he couldn 't have, what some men owned but not him, not Primus". Bob continues to make a claim about Primus by saying that " he didn’t even belong to himself ". These quotes show how slavery thrives in the mind, not by physical boundaries like the plantation fence . The environment of a plantation is made to psychologically imprison your mind, which is the real slavery. A quote from Gone with the Wind (1939) indirectly explains how this imprisonment works by saying " we take care of our slaves, we feed them, we give them medicine, we give them clothes to wear . In fact, they’re better off than those poor saps in the North and in Europe who work twelve hours a day in mines and on farms for a pittance and have to feed and clothe themselves(Ninetieth century Slave narratives p.4) . This belief that they were better off this way , is what makes a slave.
Davis (2016) stated that "the Industrialization of Europe was …show more content…
They were probably convinced that this was better than nothing. John Ruskin(1851-3) goes on to explain that " we have much studied and much perfected of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labor; only we give it a false name" He claims that we have changed the rules of slavery into labor. He goes on to say that " you must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both. Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. If you will have that precision out of them, and make their fingers measure degrees like cogwheels, and their arms strike curves like compasses, you must unhumanize them (Ruskin p.3). We have created a system that enslaves the mind, one that deprives a person of human qualities. This system has always existed and because of that, true freedom is
What is it that makes a person emancipated? Is being free something we could visualize or even grasp the concept of , or is it a just an idea? If the concept of freedom exist, then slavery exist. They are different sides of the same coin however, both terms are misleading. The ability to do whatever you want doesn’t exist without suppressing someone 's else freedom. A person is not free unless he or she chooses so on his own; both are therefore, a state of mind. Slavery has been a thread in the fabric of civilization since the beginning of time . It is not in human nature to enslave another human, right? We can assume slavery is man made, therefore the idea of freedom is also so . This concept can better …show more content…
He goes on to say " Now we could run from the master 's land to the open land and back...". As time passed and both Bob and Primus grew older, things changed. Primus begin working hard in the field and. Bob talks about an evening with Primus by saying " he was lying on the scrabble outside our cabin, his arms worn out, but not his mind". He talks about how during the time when they would build houses how he would feed his insults to his anger, "soaking up the cuts and bruises and spit until the bark house wasn’t just what he wanted, but was what he couldn 't have, what some men owned but not him, not Primus". Bob continues to make a claim about Primus by saying that " he didn’t even belong to himself ". These quotes show how slavery thrives in the mind, not by physical boundaries like the plantation fence . The environment of a plantation is made to psychologically imprison your mind, which is the real slavery. A quote from Gone with the Wind (1939) indirectly explains how this imprisonment works by saying " we take care of our slaves, we feed them, we give them medicine, we give them clothes to wear . In fact, they’re better off than those poor saps in the North and in Europe who work twelve hours a day in mines and on farms for a pittance and have to feed and clothe themselves(Ninetieth century Slave narratives p.4) . This belief that they were better off this way , is what makes a slave.
Davis (2016) stated that "the Industrialization of Europe was …show more content…
They were probably convinced that this was better than nothing. John Ruskin(1851-3) goes on to explain that " we have much studied and much perfected of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labor; only we give it a false name" He claims that we have changed the rules of slavery into labor. He goes on to say that " you must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both. Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. If you will have that precision out of them, and make their fingers measure degrees like cogwheels, and their arms strike curves like compasses, you must unhumanize them (Ruskin p.3). We have created a system that enslaves the mind, one that deprives a person of human qualities. This system has always existed and because of that, true freedom is