The Slave Mentality Ken Raymond
"Based on Douglass and Tubman's experience, we can define the slave mentality as follows: A person conditioned to quietly, and without objection, accept harmful circumstances for themselves as the natural order of things. They're also conditioned to accept their master's view and beliefs, about themselves, and strive to get others, within their group, to accept the master's view."
A person with a slave mentality is one who doesn't stand up to unjust treatment towards them; Lack self-respect
"you could say that if it was too dark for the Egyptians to see the Hebrews sneak out of Egypt, it was also too dark for them to find their way out of the country. But another colleague writing into Ravnet said that our ancestors' failure to sneak out under cover of darkness was an example of slave mentality. They could not just leave, they had to have permission. And until Pharaoh told them they could go, they had to stay put. It was a rule." Two-Minute Torah: Slave Mentality, Parashat Bo. http://rabbiarian.blogspot.com/
Free will is gone in a person w a slave mentality; forgotten how to make own decisions.
"A freed slave is not automatically a free man. He may be freed of his obligation to work for a specific person or family, but his thinking and self- image will still be that of a slave."Bo By Rabbi Aron Tendler
Burden of slaves doesn't completely diminish; physically free, mentally enslaved
"Ironically, the possibilities beyond slavery are more intimidating to the israelites than remaining in slavery."
Michelle Nelkin