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Dehumanisation’s of Slaves

1)    Subjected as property:

First time seeing them as slaves, reference as property

Constant referral as property – at the end when the slave became free, we see the ‘owner’ referring to the slave as his ‘property’

We see this at the beginning when they’re being sold.

2)    Stripped of basic rights:

Speaking and writing – We hear a conversation where another slave says that if you can read and write not to say anything.

Constant beatings – referral to the torture of the body and soul that was to come from being a ‘slave’ being somebody’s ‘property’.

Hygiene – We see one of the slaves going to another plantation to get soap. She states that she works very hard and she smells so bad that it makes her gag – being tortured through health.

Family – Once was a free man, then betrayed and stolen from them.
We see this again when they’re being sold and someone buys a mother without her kids –she is being taken from them.

Food – offered very and little forced to eat the very basics.

Sleeping – when observing, you can see that they have very poor sleeping facilities. Looks like they’re sleeping on hay, or even the ground.

Confided Environment – When being transported, they are very tightly packed together, this leads onto the fact that they need to urinate and release their bowls within the same area. – no treatment is offered for those who obtain any infections.

3)    Subjected against their will

Rape – Most female slaves are rapped. They have no choice which we can see in the film. The ‘owner’ literally owns them allowing him to do whatever.