Slavery

Introduction

Fundamentally, slavery refers to all kind of inequitable action, which is characterised by compulsory labour and assorted forms of human rights abuse. This paper intends to study the extent to which the rights and freedom are deprived of.

Question one: Code noir

The Code noir that was passed in France. It is imperative to note that any element of slavery denies the victims the aspects of independent mind. The masters predetermine their minds and actions. The code defined on stringent slavery conditions, which construed to the restrictions of the Negro es’s activities. This included exercising only the Roman Catholicism and all Jews to vacate the colonies of France. According to these articles, the code provided for powers for the masters to disciplines the slaves who worked in the plantations. This act legitimized corporal punishment as a way of maintaining control.

Question two: Ourika’s story

Ourika’s story was so popular, and this prompted its publication before her death. The slavery prejudices are expressed in the following quotations. Consider the following quotes

 “Sorrow is to have seen a foreign influence progressively alter the tastes, the feelings, the opinions that I had placed in this heart, which is no longer the one, which understood mine”

“Who would wish to marry a negress? And if, by the gift of wealth, you can find one who will bear the relation of father to her children, he must be one of a condition inferior to her own. . . . (1829, 25)”

Question three: European education

Education troubled Toussaint L, Ouverture in understanding the aspects that attributed to changing the minds of the masters on the dark side of slavery. However, the education helped Ouveture to enhance the activities of anti slavery and awareness.

Question four: Essars and Barnave

From the outset, Essars and Barnave differed in diverse opinions. Whereas Essars believed in emancipation, Barnave believed in plantation system. Essars’ argument failed because a majority of the subjects did not understand the fundamental aspects of the argument and its effects to their lives.