12 Years A Slave Dehumanization Examples

Dehumanization is to treat someone as though they are not human; subhuman. In America today there is still many examples of dehumanization. Many different people are treated poorly and not as humans. These people for some reason are seen as being different. Although dehumanization is still around today it is not as severe as it was in the olden days. After watching 12 Years a Slave and reading Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, it has come to my attention how poorly blacks were treated before Emancipation Proclamation was passed. They were treated inhumanely. In 12 Years a Slave there were many examples of dehumanization. Some examples are how the owners would beat Solomon with a wooden paddle, also they just would lock him and throw