The Atlantic Slave Trade Question: How does the absence of humanitarian concerns influence the treatment of slaves during the slave trade? Neglecting humane feelings is what influenced the terrible and horrid treatment to slaves during the slave trade. From beatings and whippings to breaking their bones, slaves were treated and considered inferior for no reason. After reading the documents, certain ones pointed out the outcomes of the absence of humanity. Document 7 reveals how these punishments were horrid and fear causing.
This shows all the torment the people of the working class were put through just so they could live. Moreover, Estaban Trueba did not treat the people of Tres Marias right because of the fact that he made his own
Priestley uses a range of language and theatrical devices to criticise the selfishness of people such as the Birling family. To begin with, Birling shows his lack of understanding and disrespect for the working class. This is show. When he says, "If you don't come down sharply on some of these people, they'd soon be asking for the Earth." This shows a lack of compassion by Birling, as he only cares about his wealth and status, and the profits he can gain from his factories.
Glen’s quandary first results from his incompetence in the capitalist society. Glen represents working class men, the proletariat, “who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live “. Therefore, Glen suffers from exploitation of the bourgeoisie, the capitalist class. This is reflected in Glen’s petty wages, which cannot support his family’s already poor living standards. Even worse, despite being strong and skillful at manual labor, Glen, known for his “hot temper, bad memory and general uselessness”, is labeled as a counterproductive factor in the capitalist system.
Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie and Proletariat” (Marx and Engels 1848). Social class, therefore, is based upon economic criteria and conflict occurs between those who own the means of production (bourgeoisie) and the wage-labourers (proletariat). As well as having economic control over the proletariat, the bourgeoisie also have the power to determine the superstructure; the ruling class can distort perceptions of the world and hide the true nature of social relationships and the exploitation of the proletariat and, above all, promote bourgeoisie interests. Marx defines production as workers selling their labour for wages in order to exchange money for commodities that will meet their most basic needs. As Marx
Marx looked at how alienation of production of commodities by workers also leads to alienation of social life. Workers are producing countless numbers of priceless commodities but are barely able to afford the
“Throughout Riis’s work, he carries the prejudiced opinions of other middle class whites of this time. Does he believe these minorities are meant to live in the squalor of the tenements and deserve their poverty? Or does he blame the tenement and their landlords for these peoples’ plight?” Jacob Riis definitely points to the tenants as the victims in this situation; instead, Riis blames the landlords and the social system for the poverty that the tenants are stuck in. It is seen as a cycle in which the tenants make only enough to survive and therefore cannot save anything to better their situation, leaving them with no choice but to continue living and working in horrid conditions. “Not content with simply robbing the tenant, the owner,
I do not like to get reminded of how dark and terrible slaves spent their pure life suffering by their cruel punishments like whipping or getting killed to stop the problem right away. Masters were so cruel. I do not understand what kind of heart God had them at birth. I wonder what thoughts masters had in mind during a torture of slaves. It was money and power that took over their minds.
Failure to this, leads to harsh penalties and measures towards the main characters, John Proctor and Tessie Hutchinson. In Miller’s The Crucible, injustice is caused mainly because of societies failure to question their superstitious
This involved whipping the field niggers when they weren’t working fast enough, whipping the runaway slaves and running errands for the white overseers and the master. This segregation would of course cause antagonism on the plantation between the different sects. However the sect that it affected the most was the head