what were the different views towards slavery DBQ
The eight different documents are given are different in many ways. I am going to compare the documents based on the attitudes of my understanding the document. These documents are all based on the institution of slavery and the attitudes about slavery. I put these eight documents into two groups and those are for slavery and neutral attitude thought about slavery. These eight documents are all sorted by attitude and are going to be from the beginning of time to modern day. The first group is the thought that slavery was a good thing. The first document in this group is document number one. This document states that a man has contracted a debt that they have to sell or rent their family. This is stating that slavery is good but there should be circumstances. This document is on the time period of 1792-1750 B.C.E. and is on the judgments of the Hammurabi. The author’s attitude towards slavery in this document is that they are completely fine with the thought of slavery as long as there are rules that should be applied to slavery. I disagree with this document because it is saying that if a man contacts a debt he must sell his family for money and labor, even though he gets them back after so long I do not like the fact that you have to give up your family. (POV) The second document in this grouping is document number 3 stating that there should be slavery and that slaves should have no property or anything unless given to by their masters. This is saying that slavery is fine and that slaves originally have no property unless this property is given to them by the master. That means that if a slave or someone other than a father has to earn their property. This document was written in the time period of first century B.C.E. to the second century C.E. in India. The third document in this grouping is document number 4. In this document it is mainly saying that slavery is good because there is an abundance of it. Slaves can have many jobs and many uses. That is the