People questioned the morality of slavery because if their inhumane way of life . ... An excerpt from viewpoint 10B reads, " Which position seems to invert from the order god hath set in the world, who hath ordained different degrees of and orders of men, some to be high and honorable, some to be low and despicable; some to be monarchs, kings, princes, and governors, masters and commanders, others to be subjects, and to be commanded; servants of sundry sorts and degrees, bound to obey; yea, some to be unborn slaves, and so to remain during their lives, as hath been proven." ... The ma...

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Douglass similarly professes from his experience as a slave that slavery proved as harmful to him as it did his slave-mistress in that it destroyed her sense of morality and corrupted her soul. ... Douglass recalled how slaves from different plantations would fight over whose master was richer or smarter thinking that the "greatness of their masters was transferable to themselves (Douglass 354)." ). ... When Douglass imparts the misfortunes of Aunt Hester, he provides the details of her whipping and what reason the master had for whipping her but he stops there and implicitly asks t...

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" Davis, M.E. then went on to tell of another young colored boy, about 16 years old, being shot in the arm, causing amputation, for simply asking his master if he was free. ... Shields writes his account of what is happening in the South, in regards to the social and political mistreatment of both a free colored man as well as "his old master, Labon Dodson" Shields explains this occurrence as "murder in the most atrocious and cruel manner". ... Many men began to have a hard time being unfair and unjust toward these colored men, due to their own morality and common sens...

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This was an efficient approach as the Bible was used frequently by advocates against slavery because it was the "the standard of morality and religion". ... " "God, instead of teaching Abraham, his chosen servant, that it was immoral to use and buy his slaves, demanded from him the performance of certain things, which required that the relation of master and slave should be kept up, not only during Abraham's time but in all future ages.... They cannot be disunited, without abrogating at once the rights of the master, and absolving the slave from his subjection. ... But...

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The video begins with shackled tribal people from throughout the African continent being herded onto a French four-master. ... The movie is historically factual, and meant to touch the morality and righteousness of every viewer. ... Morality. ...

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This demand was unrealistic, since the exploitation of female slaves was a standard practice for most masters. ... It is believed that she was molested by at least one, if not all three, of the masters she served as an adult (4). ... She takes care to only insinuate her masters' lecheries, but refuses to completely omit them. ... The maltreatment she suffers at the hands of masters' wives points to something deeper than the standard practice of cruelty. ... Rauwerda notes that the Woods' nickname for their former slave was a deliberate joke against her morality. ...

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It seems that only someone with a sense of morality that has been dulled as a constant perpetrator and witness of atrocities could place the blame squarely in the lap of a victim, compounding the tragedy. ... "These God breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend."" (4) When it comes to economic gain all sense of religious principles seem to vanish. ...

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