Stolen Into Slavery Essay

Human rights come from the document, titled “Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” Human rights are the basic rights that everyone has. Slaves worked all day, in the hot beating sun while having all their human rights violated, and one little mistake could cause a miserable amount of pain. Slavery started in 1619 and ended in 1885. There were many accounts of slavery, but a specific account of slavery, is a book titled Stolen Into Slavery, written by Judith and Denis B. Fradin. It is about a man named Solomon Northup, who was taken as a free man and put into slavery. Only African Americans were enslaved and happened primarily in the southern states as the northern states abolished slavery well before the southern states did. In WWII the

Slaves were forced to work long dangerous hours on plantations, mostly in the hot sun. In Stolen Into Slavery, Epps was a slave master. And Patsey was a slave, owned by Epps. Epps wanted to have sex with Patsey. But Patsey refused to do so, and was later on whipped. Slaves were also whipped and paddled, forcing physical pain on them. In Stolen into Slavery, it states, “When the paddle broke, Birch picked up his whip, soon streams of blood were pouring down Solomon's back, and strings of skin were gouged out whenever the lash struck” (Fradin and Fradin 10). Slaves were unable to live in freedom and safety because of the physical abuse from their masters. Japanese Americans in Internment camps were unable to live in freedom and safety because they were forced out of their homes and sent to camps. They were also put into camps with no evidence of being a spy. And after camps were over, all their things were sold, like property and businesses causing them to move back to Japan. This shows that Japanese Americans were unable to live in freedom and safety because the government was forcing things upon them like moving to camps. Both Japanese Americans in Internment camps, and slaves could not live in freedom and safety. But slaves were given a physical version of this, and Japanese Americans were given a less physical version of

The law was not the same for slaves because they could not testify in court. They would have been there and were unable to speak, when everyone else was speaking. Also, it was a white person's word over a black person's, no matter the state. Slaves couldn’t even legally learn to read and write. In, Stolen into Slavery, it states, “Southern states had numerous laws forbidding slaves, and sometimes even free blacks, from learning how to read and write” (Fradin and Fradin 26). Slaves had different laws against them because people were scared slaves would try and fight back, so they decided to change the law so they wouldn’t have to deal with them revolting. The law was changed for Japanese Americans in Internment camps because there was a curfew put in place for them. They had to be back at their house at a certain time. They introduced this law because Americans thought Japanese Americans were spies. So they thought by putting the so-called spies in their house they couldn’t spy anymore. Japanese Americans also couldn’t testify in court, unless it was about them not being of Japanese descent. Before Japanese Americans were sent to camps they had to sell the things that they could not bring to the camps. This included businesses and property. Some people refused to do so, so the government