How The Slavemaster Dehumanize Slaves

The word dehumanize means that someone treats another human being as less than a human being. One example is that a slavemaster dehumanizes the slave by not telling the slave their birthday. Another way that slavemaster dehumanize the slave is that slavemaster treated the slaves worse than animals. Also slave masters do not give them any freedom and take their clothes away. Frederick Douglass wrote in the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass about the dehumanizing of slaves by the slavemaster that he witnessed or experienced. For slaves, the bonds between parents and their children are nonexistent. Babies were removed from their mothers by the age of one. Frederick feels that he wasn’t attached to his mother. He only saw his mother