Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl Analysis

Too Inhumane to be Human Fantasy Football is played by millions worldwide. Many research the best players and draft them to their team. If they were to do bad, they might get frustrated and kick them off their team or bench them in future games. If playing well, you would celebrate with joy. This digital sport can dehumanize the players as they are often only looked at for their stats and fantasy success and not as a person. Although this is a less harsh way of ownership and dehumanization, slave owners dehumanize their slaves treating them as they are not actual people. Slave owners brought it to the utmost reasoning as they would treat their slaves as animal-like or un-human. During the 1800s, slave Harriet Jacobs wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and

Many of the punishments would never be done on a white person of that time, and some tactics are similar to those on animals. Jacobs reveals a tactic that her slave owner uses when he is eating. She writes that, the slave cook sent the food to her master in fear of his disapproval. If he were disgusted by the food, consequences towards the slave would include whipping or the act of shoving food down the slaves thoat often cause them to choke. Although the “creature” maybe hungry, the forceful eating was worse than going hungry (3). This evidence dehumanizes slaves referring to the slave as a creature, and the act of forcefully shoving food down the throat of a slave. It is inhumane to to such a thing. Douglass writes of a similar event where a slave is being physically forced to eat (964). Douglass responds to the event with, “I have said that this mode of treatment is a part of the whole system of fraud and inhumanity of slavery” (964). This shows that Douglass too believes that the punishments dehumanize the slaves. The act of forcing someone to eat is dehumanizing at it disables the natural part of eating, where as this is