In a class-antagonistic society, people’s relations become hostile to their essence, suppress, distort, and deform it. The spontaneous and antagonistic nature of these relations gives rise to forms of sociality, which are inherent in hostility to the comprehensive development of the individual. It is not a free choice but a socio-class status that determines a person’s lifestyle, the structure of needs, and value orientations. In the conditions of alienated forms of the social network, labor takes an inhumane form and becomes a means of suppression, oppression, and degradation of the individual. The ruling classes are withdrawing themselves from ordinary workers who are lower on the social ladder. The worker functions only as a tool and not as a universal, comprehensively, and harmoniously developed being. Public wealth in private property steals humanity from people, directly turning them into slaves and serving or, in the case of the bourgeoisie, indirectly. The work “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave” is one of the best examples of the genre of “slave narratives.” F. Douglass tells how, despite slavery, he managed to build and preserve his own identity, despite alienation. Since childhood, slaves have felt alienated: unlike most whites, they were deprived of many sources of self-identification since early childhood. Almost none of them knew the exact date of their birth. Not everyone knew about their blood relatives, significantly often it concerned the fathers. In many cases, white masters became the father of the children of slaves, who hid this fact in every possible way. In addition, children were already torn from their mothers in infancy to prevent the formation of kinship ties and attachments; such was the fate of Frederick himself (Douglass, 2016). The only thing he knew about himself and could use as a source of belonging to a social group was his name and race. His mother died when the boy was seven, his grandmother lived far enough away, and his sisters and brother were not very close to him. Slaveholders deliberately deprived their slaves of any information about their origin; they had to know only one thing – the master’s order was law for them. By building a barrier of alienation between themselves and the slaves, they tried to equate all slaves with animals. In such a way, they forced the serves to identify themselves as dumb creatures and deprived them of human qualities. To do this, all possible sources of belonging were erased, even those that were given by nature, for example, gender and age. When assessing property, slaves of all ages and animals were lined up in one row. No differences were made between the different groups: women were subjected to the same humiliating examination as men. Such an attitude towards slaves, the erasure of all human characteristics, began already in childhood, when slave children, regardless of gender, ran almost naked due to lack of clothing. When the slave children were fed, their food was dumped into a trough, as for pigs. During such feeding, neither the sex nor the child’s age was taken into account – only the jungle law applied: whoever is stronger gets more. As a result of such treatment, the slaves themselves got used to not paying a