Forms Of Dehumanization: Logos, Pathos, And Slave

Jaren Alston Mr. Busse English 1 Honors March 29th 2024 Dehumanization Essay Imagine a world where humans were treated like animals, caged and trapped and stripped of their own identity by other humans. This is an experience that several people have had to go through, this process is called dehumanization. Dehumanization is mainly created through the use of propaganda to create an illusion that a certain group of people/society is evil, untamed, or even harmful. Most of the time, propaganda isn’t true, but it uses forms of Logos, Pathos, Ethos, and Kairos to make people believe that it is true. Even right now, people are being dehumanized from their rights to their own religion. There are 3 main examples of dehumanization in history, these

Body Paragraph 2 Introduce into the paragraph with facts Give quotes and examples including Japanese internment camps Summarize how it all works together A third case of dehumanization can be shown through African Americans and American slavery. This type of dehumanization is racism and animalistic dehumanization. It was a type of animalistic dehumanization due to the fact that Americans treated Africans like straight up commodities and property. There is proof of this within the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass where it says “Mr. Covey was a poor man; he was just commencing in life; he was only able to buy one slave; and, shocking as is the fact, he bought her, as he said, for a breeder.” (Pg 64) This shows that Americans didn’t only buy slaves for work, they also bought them to breed for more efficient work, just like cattle. There is also more proof of dehumanization throughout the Jim Crow laws, which state from an article that “Violence was on the rise, making danger a regular aspect of African American