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if you were a slave, what woul your feelings be towards your slaves?

Imagine you are a slave trader. What are your feelings towards your slaves? Would you regard them as people, or property, or both? How would you justify feelings this way about your slavess?

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  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
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    A slave trader would regard the slaves as property. By dehumanizing the slaves,

    a slave trader presumably would feel more comfortable in doing normal business.

    In the antebellum South of the United States, many slave traders liked to claim--and many clergymen agreed with them--that the Bible gave divine approval of their work.

    You may be interested in this history book:

    Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South (1984)

    William Ellison was born (his father was the white owner of his slave mother) into

    slavery in South Carolina. He eventually gained his freedom and became an

    affluent slave owner himself, who supported the Confederacy in the Civil War.

    Evidently, he did not treat his slaves any better than most white owners did.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ellison

    You may be interested in this novel:

    Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudd%27nhead_Wilson

    You may be interested in this novel and the film based on it:

    A Respectable Trade by Philippa Gregory

    Frances Scott (played by Emma Fielding), a white Englishwoman (a former

    governess) unexpectedly comes to respect, admire, and fall in love with

    Mehuru, a Yoruban slave owned by her husband, a ruthless slave trader.

    Trapped in a loveless marriage, she enjoys a secret romance with Mehuru

    and then becomes pregnant (Is the father her husband or his slave?).

    Will bearing the child of a slave lead to her downfall in 18th century England?

  • 1 decade ago

    Well, I imagine a slave trader would think of the slaves as property.

    However, slave owners sometimes developed a fondness for favourite slaves. It seems to have been more common for women to be fond of slaves, when they wrote to relatives who had relocated on the frontier, women often enquired by name about the slaves who had been taken west by the settlers, something men almost never did. And women were much more likely than men to emancipate favourite slaves in their wills.

    Some white women developed deep and lasting friendships with female slaves, most often the nurssse who had been the family 'mammy'. Susan Davis Hutchinson reported paying a condolence call on a friend upon the death of a slave "who had been more of a mother than a servant to her."

    Source(s): America's Women, 400 Yearss of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines by Gail Collins
  • hoggan
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    you are able to definitely locate out all the info yet one ingredient you may conceal is the outlook on existence people of that factor era had. shall we placed it this type: faith replaced right into a driving element in international affairs as we communicate. The justification for the exploitation of alternative cultures in this term replaced into based on the thought that God favoured the people who have been unswerving to him. The Africans did not persist with Christianity hence they have been inferior. additionally the Africans have been seen as uncivil barbarians and hence an inferior race to Europeans. They have been seen as sub-human. This replaced into standard in this term because of fact society had lots of defining regulations on the time. the wealthy ruled politics and in user-friendly terms did what replaced into of their pursuits and in user-friendly terms one group of folk somewhat had any capability besides: wealthy white ecu men. additionally, people have been afraid to flow against the 'status quo' because of fact shall we face it, if Africans have been dealt with like airborne dirt and dirt why does not all people who adversarial the belief be dealt with any different? This concept of dominant races and cultures may well be seen greater needless to say in Nazi Germany. Hitler needed people to have faith that the "Aryan Race" replaced into the greater perfect human race on earth. of path, non of this rubbish approximately greater perfect races and so on has any scientific foundation what-so-ever it extremely is why it in no way labored in the previous. try going to a college to seek for somebody who's a professional in this historic adventure. There could be a Slave commerce college professor someplace who ought to aid you recognize each and every little thing you should renowned.

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