The Hard Life Of Slaves And Migrant Workers Rights

A right meant ownership, or the just claim or lawful title, which a person had to anything. Therefore, it would be illegal to violate a person’s right. Slaves and migrant workers worked excessively hard to earn money to go through life. However, both had to go through unfair treatments to receive the money. In addition to that, most of the treatments violated the workers’ rights because the slaves were hurt and kept, and the migrant workers were exposed to dangerous chemicals without protections. The primary sources “The Narrative of Frederick Douglass” and “The Government Class Book” and the secondary source “The Hard Life of Migrant Workers” all proved why slaves and migrant workers' rights were violated. As a result, their working and living
“Colonel Lloyd kept from three to four hundred slaves on his home plantation,” (The Narrative of Frederick Douglass, Chapter 2, paragraph 1) and “Carried to Baltimore, and sold to Austin Woolfolk, or some other slave trader, as a warning to the slaves remaining.” (The Narrative of Frederick Douglass, paragraph 1). Slaves were kept from freedom. They were limited to what they could move, act, and speak as they were pleased. Also, slaves were also humans, so that meant that they were not objects and couldn’t be sold, or kept, or owned by another person. Keeping and selling people was violating their rights because it was violating the people’s personal liberty and freedom. “Personal liberty, or the liberty of moving, acting, or speaking without unjust restraint;” (The Government Class Book, paragraph 2). This meant that keeping, selling, and owning people was violating their freedom. Some people might have thought that at least the slaves were given food, money, and a roof over their heads while they lived on the home plantation, so that must have been enough for them. However, the slaves were not free, they were trapped and forced to work on fields from early in the morning to late at night. This was violating their personal liberty rights and forcing labour, which was just as bad as disrupting
In this secondary source video titled “The Hard Life of Migrant Workers”, showed that the working conditions of the migrant workers were unhealthy. The video showed that the migrant workers were exposed to pesticides without using any protection for themselves. Pesticides were designed to harm and kill pests, therefore, they were not safe for humans to inhale in or exposed to (the workers could die). In addition to that, migrant workers’ working hours were long, so the workers’ lives were at risk. This working condition was unacceptable because this was violating people's security rights. The migrant workers’ lives were put after their