There is still such a false concept floating around about slavery, even in the twenty-first century. I enjoy reading articles and documents, like the ones provided for this essay, to properly give me an idea of what slavery was like when our ancestors were around. Slavery, even today in schools, is not taught how it should be. Many people, especially in the South, try to ignore slavery as if it never existed, when it is definitely a part of our history. I think there is a falseness, on both ends of slavery, that many people do not talk about; these documents showed me just that. In some villages, slavery was not like how it is talked about today, while in others it is much worse than we could ever imagine in this time. The whole concept …show more content…
We have some firm documents that prove some things to us, yet there is still so much we do not know about history, because it was not documented. I always thought that slave owners did not think twice about how they treated their slaves. I just assumed they all treated them poorly, they were keeping them basically hostage, right? I got a different insight on this while reading document 3.6 on Joesph Ball. Like most Americans, I made slave owners out to be these horrible people. Which, do not get me wrong, what they were doing was extremely unlawful, unjust, and downright inhumane, but some owners seemed to have treat their people like employees, not like their servants. Joseph Ball instructed his nephew Joseph Chinn to treat his workers well. “The Course Cotton… was assign’d for blankets for my Negroes….Everyone of the workers must have a Good Suite of the Welsh Plain(wool) made as it should be. Each of the children must have a Coat of Worser Cotton….If any of the Negroes should be sick, let them ly by a Good fire; and have fresh Meat and broth.”(3.6) What the African Americans of this time had to go through is absolutely horrible, but it is nice knowing that not all of my ancestors treated them horribly. Joseph Ball seemed to have treated his slaves …show more content…
I think that all probably really depended on who their owner was. It is hard for me to imagine that anyone would just accept to be treated poorly and owned as a piece of property, but they really hard no choice. If they were being treated well, clothed, fed, and had a shelter, like Joseph Ball’s and Richard Corbin’s people, I doubt there was much resistance. Some, if they weren’t slaves, might not have been fed or clothed as they were lacking jobs and rights in these colonies. While others, weren’t treated the best they could have been, resulted in resist. As bad as it sounds, I am glad there was resist, because I can’t help but think, if there was never anyone fighting back, African Americans might still be treated like that today. Lieutenant Governor William Gooch had some resistance with his slaves. Document 3.9 states that “they had means to get into their possession some arms and ammunition, an they took along with them some provisions, their cloaths, bedding and woking tools”(3.9). This resulted in a few gun shots and one person being wounded. It is extremely sad to know that it came to the point where there were injuries made to humans, all because slave owners did not want to lose money put into their slaves or lose money put into their crops,
Slaves had it hard throughout their lifetime. In the book Chains it gives brief examples of what it was like to be a slave and what some had to go through. In the book it explained a slave's life in plantation, small farm, and the city. Slaves working in plantation were in the rural areas of the country. When the slaves had to work it was a lot harder because of the sun.
The examination of textbooks and sources in the sixteen states he based his article on show that in many cases the status and progression of African-Americans from the shackles of slavery had been sanitised and was not a true reflection of reality. He argues many of the narratives portrayed the Negro freedman as “shiftless, sometimes vicious, and easily led into corruption”. Moreover he believed many of the textbooks defended the treatment that the South enacted on African-American slaves.
Civil War DBQ Test The slaves in America were mistreated in almost every way possible. For example, the slaves had very poorly built homes/log cabins, that when it rained or snowed the rain or snow would come in through the cracks in the ceiling and the walls(Doc.3).Ruining the floor and soak and freeze the slave and his family or the other people in the cabin(Doc.3). Another example of the slaves being mistreated is them being sold away from their families and everything that they know(Doc.1). One journalist by the name of Frederick Douglass pointed out the institution of slavery to point out that slaves were being mistreated the institution says: “The law gives the master absolute power over the slave.
Slavery had many faces but the underlying concept remained beneath each of these different faces. No matter how kindly a slave was treated by their master, they were still considered property and subhuman. While some owners beat and mutilated their slaves, others were more "kind" and treated their slaves humanely. Nonetheless, they still owned slaves and believed the slaves were property. Famous former slaves, such as Frederick Douglass, enlightened people as to how slaves were treated by their masters.
Individuals can empathize and grow from learning from the past experiences of others. The pre-civil war era in United States was a time where many humans were mistreated both psychologically and physically. Frederick Douglass’ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave gives readers the opportunity to understand exactly how America’s history shaped modern-day social norms and behaviors. Douglass’ personal account not only positively influenced the abolitionist movement, but raised questions of morality and human rights. The story of Frederick Douglass’ life shows exactly the repercussions of humans unjustly mistreating other humans.
Historical archeology helps understand of how the modern world was shaped. Even the smallest a artifact can play a major role of discovering ways of how people of the past lived their lives. Throughout this assignment, In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life by James Deetz, was more helpful than the rest of the reading assignments. Deetz understands the importance of how a small artifact can lead to big discoveries. Without the small detail of findings, it will be even harder to piece back the past and learned how people lived.
The topic of slavery is a topic that is well known and is almost ingrained in the students and adults of the United States. However, the basic knowledge and repetition of the rights and wrongs of slavery becomes almost calloused information, that is in the past. It is not until you truly see the effect of slavery in the lives of those who were most affected by it when you really see the significance and gravity of the situation. In the lives of both Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs you can see dynamics of a slave system, and recognize how these dynamics impacted them, and how people treated them. Frederick Douglas was a male american slave who wrote the autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
Some things that the slave owners did to them was whipped, shackled, and also imprisonment. Boundless Some plantation owners would put collars with spikes coming out of it and metal masks on African American slaves as a punishment for defying the owner’s wishes.(Moore A,) Sometimes, the plantation owners would just punish their slave to show their dominance over them. Boundless Some slave owners in Virginia were thought of for smoking slaves.
Slavery, the War on Black Family While slavery in America was an institution that was started over 400 years ago, the affects were so horrific that it is still felt today by modern day African Americans. Many families had to deal with the constant stress of being sold which made it difficult to have a normal family life. Slaves were sold to pay off debts, an owner dying and his slaves were sold in an estate sale, or when an owner’s children would leave the home to begin a life of their own, they would take slaves with them. Often times, children were not raised by their parents, other family members of someone designated to watch the children because the mother and father had to work long hours and the children were too young to join them.
The slaves and slaveholders that lived in the south didn 't always have a easy life. Douglass saw this as he was moved from house to house to house throughout his life as a slave. Slaves knew this due to them doing most of the hard work while the slaveholders did nothing but sit in their homes and do absolutely nothing. And when the slaveholders finally saw it themselves it was too late for them to do anything about it Slaves were the ones who had to endure all of the hardships of living in the south due to them being the ones who had to do all of the work.
When somebody doesn 't do the right they get hit with a whip till they do what is told. Slavery is nothing like doing chores for your parents it 's worse you can 't take a break until you are done you have to keep working until they tell you when your done, and you barely get paid for it. • B. Background information: There has been a lot of injustice in society in slavery like beating up up someone when they don 't do the right thing for the job. slavery isn 't there choice they have to do it for them not for
In a time where Slavery was at its worst in the South, all slaves could dream about was being set free, living their own lives, not being seen and treated as property. Without the proper help, however, they would never succeed in escaping alone. The underground railroad gave them hope, that someday they would be able to live that life by helping hundreds of thousands of slaves escape to the Northern States where they could be free. Slaves used to endure cruel treatment from their owners on almost a daily basis.
Who is Frederick Douglass? Frederick Douglass was a man who was raised during the institution of slavery and believed that everyone involved was victimized. Looking back in history, Frederick gave an inside to how and why this statement is true. Slaves were obviously abused physically and were brainwashed about their culture. Slave-owners or slaveholders were corrupted mentally which turned them into evil human beings.
Frederick Douglass’s narrative provides a first hand experience into the imbalance of power between a slave and a slaveholder and the negative effects it has on them both. Douglass proves that slavery destroys not only the slave, but the slaveholder as well by saying that this “poison of irresponsible power” has a dehumanizing effect on the slaveholder’s morals and beliefs (Douglass 40). This intense amount of power breaks the kindest heart and changes the slaveholder into a heartless demon (Douglass 40). Yet these are not the only ways that Douglass proves what ill effect slavery has on the slaveholder. Douglass also uses deep characterization, emotional appeal, and religion to present the negative effects of slavery.
This was due to the fact that slaves and servants had started to voice out the wrong, and not accept the injustice behavior they were encountering. However, with the consequences the slaves and the servants had to face due to the