Slavery in Charles Dickens ’ Novel Oliver Twist

This research discusses the slavery experienced by the characters in the Oliver Twist novel. Those who have no family and no place to stay eventually become slaves who are forced to work for the benefit of the owner. They are treated as property and often get physical violence. This research aims to analyze the types of slavery that are reflected in Oliver Twist novel. This research using descriptive qualitative methods. Researchers used the Marxist approach and slavery theory to find the types of slavery contained in Oliver Twist novel. From the results of the analysis, it was found that there are 4 types of slavery in Oliver Twist novel, namely forced labor, sex slavery, child slavery and domestic servitude.


b. Bonded Labor
Debt bondage describes slavery where someone is forcibly employed to ipay ioff idebt. iInitially ian iagreement iwas imade iby iemployers iand iworkers. iHowever, ithe iagreement iis ionly ibeneficial ifor ithe iemployer. iSo ithat iworkers ibecome islaves iand icannot ileave itheir ijobs ibecause iof ithe iinitial agreement that has been made. The employer will continue to add additional costs so that the worker will continue to work but cannot pay the debt [11].

d. Child Slavery
According to Lombardo [11], Child slavery is children under 18 years old that employed through coercion and enslavement in hazardous work. Children are employed as a slave. Where children became a slave cause of their situation.
Data 5: Mr. Sowerberry was in his shop. He was visited by the village secretary who was none other than Mr. Bumble. Mr. Bumble came to the shop which was a coffin shop and gave Mr. Sowerberry a piece of paper and said the coffin and after that the village burial. After conveying this, the bumble master immediately left the shop. After the departure of the bumble master, Mr. Sowerberry calls on the Oliver Twist to leave immediately to carry out their work.

Data 7:
Oliver was working in a workhouse. Workhouse is a place where an orphan live and work. In workhouse, the children work start from six o'clock to pick oakum.
Well! You have come here to be educated, and thought a useful trade, said the red-faced gentleman in the high chair.

IV. CONCLUSION
In Oliver Twist, novel by Charles Dickens, the researchers make a conclusion of what has been analyzed in the previous chapter. Oliver Twist novel by Charles Dickens illustrates the existence of slavery that occurred in the novel. Where slavery was analyzed using Crystal Lombardo's theory. From five types of slavery by Crystal Lombardo, it was four types of slavery found in Oliver Twist Novel by Charles Volume 2, Number 1, May 2020 p. 51-57 57 Dickens. That are forced labor, sex slavery, child labor and domestic servitude.