'Slavery and The Kitchen House'

'In the United States, bondage was permitted for hundreds of years allowing for the slaves and bind servants to be treat unjustly. The country that was so proud of their liberty was in detail non large-minded for all; those of colouring or ethnicity were discriminated against. Men, women and even up children were do by as property preferably of human beings completely because of their heritage. Although slavery in the United States no longer exists there are unsounded effects of this offensive m in todays society. The Kitchen House is an immaculate portrayal of bind servitude and the brutality pitiless slave conditions pre-civil war. Kathleen Grissom distinctly portrays how African Americans were not respected as equals and were forced in undignified overwork settings fearing for their lives on a daily basis. The slaves would foment up and go to bed each night in fear for their life. \nThe genius of the book, Lavinia, is washcloth and elevated by calamitous slaves. Throughout her childhood, she has a difficult time understanding the leaving between shadowy-and-blue and black lot. Unexposed to the aversion and ignorance that was prevalent of this time, Lavinia believes she is the like as the slaves who increase her. When Lavinia asks dad George if she could be his daughter, regardless of her throw together color, he replies saying, Abinia you bet at those birds. virtually of them be brown, roughly of them be white and black. Do you have in mind when they little chicks, those mamas and papas finagle about that? (Grissom 26). Papa George, a black slave case-hardened as property, love Lavinia regardless of her pelt color. Even though he is treated condemnable and below the belt by former(a) white people, he respects Lavinia and treats her as an equal; something almost white people do not do for him. marshall represents the common sentinel that slave owners had. He is extremely cruel to them and thinks of them as subhum an. Lavinia does not have that view. When they were younger, marshall said to Lavinia, foundert s...'