Nehemiah Adams was a Congregationalist minister in Boston, Massachusetts. Due to health reasons, the minister travelled for 3 months within South. The author’s article “Slavery Is Not Oppressive” will be discussed here. The reason that this article came up was because the author believed that black slaves were actually living a life of luxury, which he witness when he was travelling around in South.
Adams state that his first impression of the black slaves was that they were all treating him nicely and were in good humor. This surprised Adams significantly as he was not expecting that the slaves would be nice to him in anyway. At a point, Adams asked them to place a trunk with good amount of baggage, and it was done. Furthermore, the slaves …show more content…
Before the age of 18, Randolph had been emancipated when his owner died. Eventually, Randolph settled in Boston and became a preacher. Rudolph had never seen his father or rather he rarely saw him owing to which he did not remember him correctly. The author was of the view that his father was a very cruel man; however, his opinion changed when he came to know the hardship his father was made to go through by Mr. George Harrison who owned him and made him whip his fellow cruelly.
According to the author, the house servants were treated in a much better way than the field slaves. The house servants were better fed as well as given better clothing to wear. Furthermore, the house servants were never treated cruelly because they were to be presented in front of the strangers so the master and his family wanted to show that they treated their house servants in the best way. On the other hand, the field servants were treated cruelly, they were not given enough time to eat or proper clothes to …show more content…
The master would order his slaves to dress himself and be on the field. If the slaves had a good dress, they should put it on and be on the fields. Each slave would then be provided with enough rum so that they act crazy when the visitor arrived. Rudolph, further states, that if any visitor were to ask the slaves whether they wanted to leave or not, all slaves would say they don’t want to because of the rum they were given. The master makes certain that slaves do not say anything that would put a wrong impression on the visitor.
The slavery in towns and plantations is vastly different because of the way the slaves are treated in these two areas. The town slaves are not treated cruelly for the main reason being that in town, both the master and the slavery is of the view that every individual has some dignity that should not be tarnished by treating them cruelly. Secondly, the slaves in town can buy themselves out by paying their masters a good amount of money, once a
Adams state that his first impression of the black slaves was that they were all treating him nicely and were in good humor. This surprised Adams significantly as he was not expecting that the slaves would be nice to him in anyway. At a point, Adams asked them to place a trunk with good amount of baggage, and it was done. Furthermore, the slaves …show more content…
Before the age of 18, Randolph had been emancipated when his owner died. Eventually, Randolph settled in Boston and became a preacher. Rudolph had never seen his father or rather he rarely saw him owing to which he did not remember him correctly. The author was of the view that his father was a very cruel man; however, his opinion changed when he came to know the hardship his father was made to go through by Mr. George Harrison who owned him and made him whip his fellow cruelly.
According to the author, the house servants were treated in a much better way than the field slaves. The house servants were better fed as well as given better clothing to wear. Furthermore, the house servants were never treated cruelly because they were to be presented in front of the strangers so the master and his family wanted to show that they treated their house servants in the best way. On the other hand, the field servants were treated cruelly, they were not given enough time to eat or proper clothes to …show more content…
The master would order his slaves to dress himself and be on the field. If the slaves had a good dress, they should put it on and be on the fields. Each slave would then be provided with enough rum so that they act crazy when the visitor arrived. Rudolph, further states, that if any visitor were to ask the slaves whether they wanted to leave or not, all slaves would say they don’t want to because of the rum they were given. The master makes certain that slaves do not say anything that would put a wrong impression on the visitor.
The slavery in towns and plantations is vastly different because of the way the slaves are treated in these two areas. The town slaves are not treated cruelly for the main reason being that in town, both the master and the slavery is of the view that every individual has some dignity that should not be tarnished by treating them cruelly. Secondly, the slaves in town can buy themselves out by paying their masters a good amount of money, once a