My Arguement

The topic that I chose was that slavery is dehumanizing towards the slaves and the slaveholders. The centeral aruement of my paper is going to be that during the slavery, it wasn't only the slaves that were dehumanized. The slaveholders were dehumanized by their actions and the slaves were dehumanized by their sufferage and the way the were treated. I can prove this because in his story he gave multiple examples of what the slaveholders would do to them and also an example of his slaveholder stopping his mistress from teaching Douglas how to read. Another thing is that slaves were treated no better than animals on the plantations they lived at if not worse. This shows that they are being treated as something other than human, more along the lines of property. When Douglas was traded to be a littles boy's play toy this shows that he was just property. I chose this argument because I felt that i knew about this topic and that Douglas did an amazing job describing this in his story.