The Abuse of Power

Throughout this week we have learned a lot about how the ability to control authority can be very difficult and most of the time people abuse this power greatly. The cotton picking slaves were taken hostage and forced into mostly harsh conditions to work. Many people believe that slaves were treated poorly due to the stereotypical abusive white male slave owner and the ideas that slaves were not treated as humans but as animals. The false idea of slaves being abused by their slave owners creates false ideas for other humans. There is no specific evidence that states whether slaves were mistreated or cared for because all slave owners treated their slaves differently. Some slave owners treated their slaves with care and nurtured them because the healthier the slave the more efficient they worked. Whereas, other slave owners gave little to no food to the slaves and mistreated them.