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not treated with any respect, or proper care. Even modern day
criminals, those that have murdered large numbers of people are treated more
humanly then the average slave ever was. The life that the children would of
lived would of been one of complete servitude, they would of never of known what
it was like to live on their own and make their own decisions. This all goes
back to the fact that they would never be human or treated as humans, so based
on this I believe that Sethe was justified in killing her children and
preventing them from becoming enslaved.

The fact that the slaves where treated like animals, and where traded and sold
like cattle is well depicted in the book. This did not actually shock me, the
items in the book that shocked me had to do with the living conditions, and
punishments that the men where put through. What I am referring to in particular
are the living conditions at the work camp in Georgia. The fact that the men
were in little cubbie holes in a trench ...

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