Slavery and The Kitchen House

In the United States, bondage was permitted for hundreds of years allowing for the slaves and indentured servants to be treated unjustly. The country that was so proud of their idledom was in fact not free for all; those of color or ethnicity were discriminated against. Men, women and even children were treated as property instead of world beings solely because of their heritage. Although slavery in the United States no seven-day exists there are placid effects of this horrific quantify in todays society. The Kitchen House is an accurate characterization of indentured servitude and the brutality brutal slave conditions pre-civil war. Kathleen Grissom clearly portrays how African Americans were not respected as equals and were forced in humbling work settings revereing for their lives on a daily basis. The slaves would wake up and go to bed any night in fear for their life. \nThe protagonist of the book, Lavinia, is light and raised(a) by dismal slaves. passim her child hood, she has a difficult fourth dimension understanding the difference in the midst of albumen and black people. Unexposed to the horror and ignorance that was prevalent of this time, Lavinia believes she is the same as the slaves who raised her. When Lavinia asks Papa George if she could be his daughter, regardless of her whittle color, he replies saying, Abinia you look at those birds. closely of them be brown, some of them be white and black. Do you hypothesize when they little chicks, those mamas and papas care about that? (Grissom 26). Papa George, a black slave treated as property, loved Lavinia regardless of her skin color. Even though he is treated cruel and below the belt by other white people, he respects Lavinia and treats her as an equal; something most white people do not do for him. marshall represents the honey oil outlook that slave owners had. He is extremely cruel to them and thinks of them as subhuman. Lavinia does not have that view. When they were yo unger, Marshall said to Lavinia, Dont s...