The Positive And Negative Effects Of Slavery In The 19th Century

Slavery is no more a luxury than it is a crime. By having complete control over multiple human beings, slave owners were allowed to treat humans as if they were not humans at all. They were allowed to treat them like animals, and reject the right to let them learn to read and write. Most importantly, slave owners were unaware of the negative effects that owning slaves had on them, as opposed to a previous time where they had not owned any slaves. In the 19th century slaves were a very valuable and luxurious thing to have, it was viewed as a sign of wealth. However, slave owners were not always as cruel as they sound.
Frederick Douglas, along with all other slaves, were not the only people who were affected by slavery. Without slave owners, there would be no slaves, and without slaves there would be no one for slave owners to rule. Without having anyone to boss around masters would have very different views as to the treatment of other people. The change that occurs when ordinary people are given slaves appears very frequently within
However, what slaves did not know is exactly how much slaves were inferior to their masters. “The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other light than a band of robbers, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land reduced us to slavery.” Page (24) This quote shows that only after slaves were introduced to the crimes, and schemes that their owners had been committing, were they truly able to understand how harsh their living conditions were. Without having access to knowledge, slave owners were able to brainwash their slaves into thinking that there is nothing wrong with slavery. Slave owners believed that if they were to omitting the teaching of reading and writing to slaves, that there would be no chance of slaves rebelling against