Thackeray and SlaverySlavery fascinated Thackeray. For him, the essence of slavery consisted of treating people like things. Thomas examines relationships in Thackerays fiction in which people have been reduced to objects and power is an end. These relationships include not only actual slaves and blacks, but also servants, dependents of all races, upper class women sold into marriage, and children struggling to escape parental domination. Thomas also clarifies Thackerays