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How Does Slavery Still Exist Today

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Slavery. Such a word in the present day would be an absurd, unheard of. However, the sad truth is, over 200 million people worldwide suffer from this cruel word only heard more than 100 years ago. These slaves, lured from their homes and tricked into forced labor, prostitution, and many more terrible feats, still exist in our society. Mankind has not veered from the idea established from cavemen, the right of the strongest. First off, many people struggle to maintain common ground on exactly what the idea of the right of the strongest is. An explanation by supporters of this idea is found in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. St. Clare’s brother explains his position on slavery as similar to aristocratic societies. Alfred believes that it is the right of the slave owner to keep his slaves in line by using as much brute force as one feels necessary. He believes that society has always functioned in this manner, from cavemen to Europe’s serfdoms and fiefdoms. In present day, Alfred might be a supporter of this modern day slavery as he might argue it is the natural order of things. …show more content…

This is exactly what happens in India today. According to Of Human Bondage: Slavery Today, children are forced into carpet weaving factories. Similar to Alfred, the owners have an argument saying, “It gives them something to do...it’s not as bad as they make it seem.” While children from the factories would plea, “I don’t like this life. I want to do anything, but this.” This is just one cruel form that slavery has in the modern world. The world needs to be informed of the extent of its involvement in two connected topics, slavery and the rights of the

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Douglass uses paradox to demonstrate that slavery degragrates the slaverholder. When Douglass under Mr. Sever’s care he described that: “He was less cruel, less profane… He whipped, but seemed to take no pleasure in it. ”(Douglass 24). Most slaveholders are characterized to be cruel and inhuman because of the whipping and the way they treated the slaves.

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This for the master is empowerment, and for the slave, oppressive. It is evident that there was some sort of understanding within the community of slaveholders, that a prosperous master, must be cruel. For instance, Douglass recounts a memory of Master Auld’s transformed demeanor after attending a methodist conversion camp. He states, “it made him more cruel and hateful in all his ways; for I believe him to have been a much worse man after his conversion than before. Prior to his conversion, he relied upon his own depravity to shield and sustain him in his savage barbarity; but after his conversion, he found religious sanction and support for his slaveholding cruelty” (77).

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