The Treatment Of The Prisoners - 1462 Words

Having compared the plantations in the United States to the death and labor camps of the Nazi Regime historians believe slaves and prisoners were equally enslaved. Quite a few argue that the treatment of the slaves was as inhuman as the treatment of the prisoners, in the death camps. In countless ways, the historians can be proven correct. Designed to hold prisoners’ captive, the Nazi death camps were a place to send prisoners to their death because they were thought non-superior race. Though of as animals, slaveholders had no dispute with using their wealth and power to hold slaves captive. Both parties were guilty of mistreatment and unjust actions towards fellow human beings. Ironically, a hundred years’ separation and yet history†¦show more content†¦The seller sold the children separately causing great emotional stress to the mother. Marriages among slaves may have been not legal, but many still married and formed families. Unfortunately, many of thes e families were separated. The text states that the 2nd reason for the end of slave marriages was the sale of a spouse. Being only property, Slaves were sold and traded by masters. Jews of World War II were separated and move to different camps and even then moved around from camp to camp. Never to be seen again the Jews were stripped from each other’s arms and forced into cattle cars to be transported to several different camps. Men to one camp and women and children to another leaving families torn apart, many heartbroken and with no will to continue. Tearing their families apart (Jews or slaves) removes a part of their identities and in its place leaves fear. Giving the jailers power over them by using the fear for their families as a means to manipulate them into doing and acting the way they wanted them to. As the hallmark of everyday life for the slaves and the Jewish prisoners fear ran ramped through the barracks and plantations. Punishments for not working fast enough, for being late getting to the fields, for defying authority, for running away, and for any number of reasons were many of the reasons salves were beaten with whip, tortured, mutilation, imprisoned, and being sold. In the movie 12 years a slave, Solomon whipped for