Slavery and The Kitchen House

In the join States, thraldom was permitted for hundreds of years allowing for the buckle downs and bound(p) servants to be set unjustly. The rustic that was so proud of their liberty was in fact not free for all; those of deform or ethnicity were discriminated against. Men, women and even children were enured as property sort of of human beings solely because of their heritage. Although slavery in the United States no longer exists there are still effects of this horrid time in straightaways society. The Kitchen House is an surgical portrayal of indentured servitude and the heinousness inhumane slave conditions pre-civil war. Kathleen Grissom intelligibly portrays how African Americans were not respected as equals and were forced in undignified work settings fearing for their lives on a daily basis. The slaves would airstream up and go to withdraw every night in fear for their life. \nThe protagonist of the book, Lavinia, is uncontaminating and raised by fatal sl aves. Throughout her childhood, she has a laborious time understanding the diversity between white and blue people. Unexposed to the hatred and ignorance that was prevalent of this time, Lavinia believes she is the like as the slaves who raised her. When Lavinia asks tonic George if she could be his daughter, unheeding of her beat color, he replies saying, Abinia you look at those birds. Some of them be brown, nigh of them be white and black. Do you think when they little chicks, those mamas and papas plow about that? (Grissom 26). Papa George, a black slave treated as property, loved Lavinia regardless of her skin color. Even though he is treated fell and unfairly by opposite white people, he see Lavinia and treats her as an equal; something about white people do not do for him. marshall represents the common outlook that slave owners had. He is extremely deplorable to them and thinks of them as subhuman. Lavinia does not select that view. When they were younger, Mar shall said to Lavinia, slangt s...