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Examples Of Malpractice In Goodbye Uncle Tom

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Slavery is a malpractice whose roots can be traced back to thousands of years. The very first records of civilization depict the existence if this malpractice. But since a few hundred years, the situation of the slaves have been pathetic. They’ve been exploited physically to the very extremes. However, due to the controversial status of this subject and to avoid any social uprising, this topic has always been evaded by the filmmakers.

The movie Goodbye Uncle Tom (Original name: Addio Zio Tom), is an Italian movie which depicts the 20th century America and the pitiable and frightful conditions in which the slaves, in particular the Africans survived. The film was supposed to be a drama film, which later was termed as documentary by the viewers, …show more content…

The African Americans, sick of the maltreatment and abuse they have had to endure at the hands of the white Americans, are raising their voice against it all and being supported by individuals such as Malcom X and Leroi Jones to kill the white race.

The movie makers are intrigued by the current scenario and to investigate how the things reached this state, they decide to travel back in time to get a deeper and important insights on the above mentioned malpractice. Firstly, the film makers reach a plantation at New Orleans, where different aristocratic Southerners are interviewed. These aristocrats defend the practice of Slavery, while ironically tossing their left overs to the poor African kids huddled under the table.
Their next stop is a slave ship where they show, hundreds of malnutirioned and diseased Africans, nearly dead of inanition, getting down the ship. It also features a rendezvous with a doctor according to whom, black people lack a sense of feeling, which makes the act of enslaving the Africans as legitimate and ethical.
The film also provides an insight of a whorehouse of that era, where the black women are dressed up in sultry dresses, paraded in front the whites and then sold off to the highest

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