Slavery in the United States
In the history of the United States nothing has brought more
shame to the face of America than the cold, premeditated
method of keeping black people in captivity. People from
England who migrated to America used many different methods
to enslave black people and passed them down through the
children. These methods were quite effective, so effective that
these “slaves” were kept in captivity for over two hundred years
in this country. It was the rain of terror that kept black people in
fear of their lives for so long. The invention of the gun back in
the fifth-teenth century was the main reason that these people
were able to go to another continent and enslave so many
people. These people from Africa were mistreated very badly
right from the start both mentally and physically. They were
packed very tightly on ships for months at a time chained to
each other with no place to go to the bathroom, little water to
drink, and hardly anything to eat.
As the population constantly increased in the colonies during the
1600’s, so did the demand for slavery especially in the southern
colonies where the big plantations were. These plantations were
very lucrative since the owners had free manual labor and they
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could keep all the profit from the crops for themselves. They
also had to justify what they were doing to themselves so what
they did was tell themselves that these slaves were barbaric and
not smart enough to be civilized. These slave owners also
owned huge houses in the middle of their plantations and
thought of themselves as noblemen. In acuality, it was the slaves
who were living nobly while the Europeans were living
barbaricly. The Europeans who owned slaves also thought that
the slaves were not smart enough because they could not speak
English and they did not have a written language. This was
proven not to be true either because the second generation of
slaves learned the English language with no trouble at all. Once
the slaves started having children, the demand for slaves
dropped while the market for selling slaves and their children
went up. This was another way they kept slaves in slavery. If a
person was born to a slave, he or she was automatically born
into a life of slavery. The owners would also keep their slaves
ignorant. They would not teach them how to read or write. If
they could read, they would have been shocked to find that
these colonists believed that every man is born with the
unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
They also would have known that these colonists left the last
country that they were in for this same reason.
Their ignorance to this fact is not what kept them in slavery for
so though. What kept them obedient was the fact that they
knew they would be made an example of if they tried to escape.
Second of all, they had no where to escape to. It was not like
they had a friend’s house to hide out in. They knew if they
rebelled or acted up, they would be either beaten very badly
with whips, punished by starving in the basement, or just shot. I
am sure they all wanted to rebel, but they saw what happened
to the ones who did rebel so most of them decided not to. As
time went on, slaves were getting smarter and were learning
how to read and write. They started learn that not all black
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people in the country were enslaved. By word of mouth or by
reading, they started to learn that slavery did not exist up north.
Then they started to learn that not every white person was out
to get them if they knew that they were planning to escape. This
was a very dangerous plan though. Some white people would
actually help some slaves escape. This was called the
Underground Railroad. Underground because it was kept a big
secret from everyone because nobody could trust anybody
back then because you would never know who would snitch
and who wouldn’t. The railroad part was a string of houses of
white people who would hide runaway slaves for the day so
they could continue to head towards the northern states during
the night for their freedom. This was the only way a slave could
gain his or her freedom. One slave that had escaped was
Fredrick Douglas. This man, instead of getting his freedom and
forgetting about his past, wanted to help his people. What he
did was prepare a speech for a huge audience of white people
and tell them what was going on down south. This was a well-
spoken black man who was very brave. First of all, most
people up north had never even seen a black man, nor have
they heard about how these slaves were being treated down
south. After he was through with his speech, he received a
standing ovation for his courage and that is one of the things that
started the northerners strong opinion that slavery is wrong. This
would eventually lead to the Civil War.
So basically, greed for money through free labor, supply and
demand, and gun power is what created slavery. Keeping the
fear in the eyes of the slaves is what kept them working under
such poor conditions everyday, while their friends and family
could be sold away at any time or place. Learning English and
being able to read and write is what educated these men and
women. Once they were educated enough, they could secretly
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plan escape routes to the north and finally get some sympathy
for their people which would eventually lead to the Civil War.
This war was about right and wrong. There is a moral way to
make money and then there is an immoral way to make a living.
Slavery is the number one event in our country’s history that has
disgraced and put shame to our culture. Even though not
everyone owned slaves, one bad apple spoils the bunch.
Hopefully people will learn from history, and immoral actions or
events like slavery will not take place again.
