Slavery Was Terrible For Men

Inhumanity “Slavery [was] terrible for men; but it [was] far more terrible for women.” These were the wiser words of Harriet Jacobs, a woman who suffered the mistreatments and abusiveness of a white guy who believed because he was her owner was allow to do anything he wanted with her. 12 years a slave is such a marvelous movie when it comes to the representation of slavery in America before the civil war, and it showed an era of racism, injustices, and inequality especially towards colored people. Even when the movie has a fellow as one of the main character, Solomon Northup, there are certainly some women that play an important and relevant character into the story, and they surely provide a different perspective of genders when it comes to slavery.
Eliza was a relevant character within the movie because she gave us a perspective of what was like to be a mother in that horrible era. She was a mistress of her master, and she was unfortunately put into the market
She was a teenager or a young woman who still wanted to play with her handmade dolls that she herself made with corn leaves and other wild things. Patsey was the best worker in the plantation of Mr. Epps, and she was easily able to surpass the amount of cotton that the other workers collected. She was the “queen of the fields,” as Mr. Epps would say. She was remarkably the favorite for Mr. Epps, and he made it noticeable to his slaves and wife. It was the fact that she could give him more money, her young age, and appearance that attracted Mr. Epps the most and it was the same characteristic that caused her a lot of problems with Mrs. Epps. On one hand, Patsey was being physically violated by her master whenever he felt like it; and on the other hand, she was being psychology abused by his master’s mistress. Patsey was certainly being abused in every possible way, and despite she was alive, she did feel like