12 Years Of Slavery Essay

12 years a slave and Lincoln both show two different perspectives on slavery. 12 years of slave focuses on the view from slaves and how it affects their lives. Slaves have a more personal connection to slavery, which we can see when Solomon is separated from his family. After 12 years of being a slave he comes back home seeing how much his family has changed. In Solomon’s case slavery tore him from his family and wasn’t able to see his children grow up or be there for his family. Slavery separated families and in most cases they were never reunited. Slaves also had to endure a lot of physical and emotional abuse because of slavery. This is seen more in the character of Patsey than Solomon. Patsey is constantly sexually assaulted by her owner and tormented by his wife Mistress Epps. Slavery to slaves meant having to put up with the abuse of whites and long hours of hard labor without proper rest or nourishment. An example is when Patsey is whipped for getting a
Slavery to white politicians was more based on ending the war. Man politicians saw the 13th amendment as the only way to end the civil war and not agreed so much on the abolition of slavery. This is shown when republicans were going to postpone the vote once they heard that a Confederate peace delegation was going to take place. Many white citizens also believe the passage of the 13th amendment is the only way to end the civil war, we can see that with Mr. and Mrs. Jolly. They want a republican as their representative in order for him to vote for the 13th amendment. However, if the war ended before the vote they would rather not have their representative agree to the 13th amendment. Many white politicians still wanted slavery but would much rather end the war to save casualties. However there was white politicians like President Lincoln and Congressman Stevens who cared about freeing slaves and believed they had a right to be