Rogers, Subjugation/degredation

In Harriet Jacob's "Incidents In The Life of a Slave Girl", there is a part in chapter II (The New Master and Mistress) where the protagonist sees a young slave girl exsanguinating after giving birth to a baby that clearly has white blood. The mistress stood by and watched the girl die while taunting her with "You suffer, do you?...I am glad of it. You deserve it all, and more too." The master had obviously dallied with the slave girl and the mistress was taking her anger out on the poor girl. The practice of raping and impregnating the slave girls was very common and the mistress was forced to watch the evidence of her husbands infidelity grow up in her household. This indubitably drove a wedge into marriages not to mention fostering a hatred of the slave girl in question for both the master and the mistress. In Frederick Douglass's "Narrative of a Life", the same subject is brought up, and he tells us how the masters and mistresses invariably worked the slave-children of the master harder then the other slaves. He goes on to say that the master must not only whip the slave himself, but watch his white children beat their "mulatto" siblings, "...and if he lisp one word of disapproval, it is set down to his parental partiality, and only makes a bad matter worse, both for himself and the slave whom he would protect and defend."
Slave-owners turned slaves into brutes and gave them the idea that they were somehow subhuman and that they were supposed to be enslaved. They should be grateful for any bone the master chose to throw to them, like the myth of the "happy slave". When you subjugate another people, you deprive them of the most basic right of humanity, freedom and in doing so most slave-owners discarded their own humanity and became only, "Master". This may be far-fetched, but I believe that the practice of Euthanasia correlates to the practice of slavery. People who have no hope of recovery, or who are in constant pain or who are elderly and suffer the indignities of being bedridden, should be allowed to make the decision to die. Being kept alive is its own type of slavery. Being kept in the grip of a terminal illness or a crowded hospital ward when there is no chance of recovery is enslavement in one's own body.