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Response To Charles Dickens Stereotypes

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Charles Dickens deeply loathes slavery and claims that American slave owners know nothing of what their slaves must do. While he was speaking to a slave owner who claimed that many of the European projections of slavery are false and that many slave owners treat them well. The man claimed that what good would it be to treat them inhumanely because that would diminish the slave’s value. In response to this Dickens writes that while many things are not in a man’s best interest, such as drunkenness, lying, seeking revenge, and murder, men do them anyway. (Dickens 251) Though she did not really encounter natives while in America Fanny Trollope could not change her prejudices against them due to what she had heard about their manners and their barbaric
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