Experts Historical Lens

Sunup  to sundown the life of a slave showcases the true every day life a slave had to go through. It eliminates any myths about slaves and talks about what really went on behind every slaves life. It defines slavery as what it really is an “economic institution”. According to the author slaves had many different life styles depending on their owners and work positions. The integration of Slave quotes helps solidify his writing one example being “We got to eat what the while folk got to eat”. It is true that every slave story was different and integrating that in his writing allowed by the reader understand the life of a slave a little bit more. His opinion towards slavery was very apparent throughout the text.

“Slavery was an inhumane institution. slaves were suppose to be protected by the law from excessively harsh treatment. Any person found guilty of cruel or inhumane treatment of slaves was fined or sent to jail, but slaveholders paid little to no attention to the laws.Cruel treatment, such as a female slave whose master had left her hanging by her thumbs in St. Louis in 1839. Was not uncommon.”

     I did not know that there were even any laws that aid slaves. This was a real eye opener. Mentioned before in the text slave owners did and said something to simply shut the abolitionist up. Huckleberry finn targets to send a whole new message. While this tries to emphasize a sad and hatred towards slavery huckleberry finn tries to make slavery

By making jim interact with finn with a dad and son relation it tells people “Hey, they are not as different as us. Skin color should not make others inferior to you. Black and white people can live together with no alteration because of their skin color.” The author also included opinions from other historians which in my opinion made the text even that more interesting.As expressed in an earlier blog, Twain had a very good idea of how slaves were treated. While working in the riverboats he had to come across many slaves working in the canal boats. He new that slaves no no more different that a white american. He had to see at the suffering these people endured every day. In a way twain captured a slaves potential if they were not tied to all the social restrictions. It was his interaction with slaves that made twain so sure that both races were the same. The author  talks about the false description of slaves that was given to satisfy abolitionist by slave owners. It talks about different historians opinion of the food and shelter conditions slaves faced. Ultimately both authors wanted to send a abolitionist ideology towards slavery. The difference was that one author used facts about slavery and the other created a fictional story to in essence get the same message across.