12 Years A Slave Double Standard

You Can’t be on Both Sides The movie 12 Years a Slave, is a film about Solomon Northup, a free black man, who is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the south. This video shows the struggle of to survive and maintain some of this dignity. In today’s world, many things can be considered hypocrite or double standard. You even can be doing a double standard thing, and don’t even know. A prominent example of this hypocrisy is the people who say that they are pro-animal rights and love animals, but they consume animal products such as food, clothing, decorations, etc. Year’s back, this double standard was not about animals, was about people treated like animals. Slavery was a normal thing back in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s. Despite that this
Also, it was reasonable to treat them like cattle, or even worse than cattle punishing them with whips, for example. Many of that slaveholders, religiously identified themselves as Christians, and that is what indignant Jacobs and Douglass. Slavery was the complete opposite of what a good Christian does, and what God wanted for the country. But in that time, the half of the United States saw it pretty reasonable to have humans being in possession of property. Douglass and Jacobs had to live with that hypocrisy a big part of his life. In both books, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Douglas and Jabobs described the injustice and the atrocities that they had to live as slaves. Both of them expressed the hypocrisy of the slaveholders they met during their time as slaves. Jacobs and Douglas mention the hypocrisy in their books by how the slaveholders called themselves Christians, in how to let them celebrate holidays like 4th of July and Christmas, and in living in the
Obviously this attitude in not from a Christan man, a Christian man should be the de complete opposite. In Jacobs’ narrative, she described all the awful things that her’s master did, but in special, what he did to her. In this fragment Jacobs describes how this man tried to corrupt her, “He tried his utmost to corrupt the pure principles my grandmother had instilled. He peopled my young mind with unclean images, such as only a vile monster could think of. I turned from him with disgust and hatred. […] where I saw a man forty years my senior daily violating the most sacred commandments of nature. He told me I was his property; that I must be subject to his will in all things” (Jacobs). She as a youth, he tried to abuse her, mentally and physically, and she had to endure this abuses because, like her master said, she belonged to him. How men can call himself a Christian with this attitude? In one specific passage of the Bible shows how a real Christian should behave: “And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself” Matthew 22:39. Although you may think that slavery does not exist anymore, slavery still exists. This article from Human Trafficking and Slavery, states that still exist slavery, “A five-year-old chained to a rug loom in India, a domestic servant enslaved and beaten in the Middle East and sex slaves trafficked within the United States are