Slavery 5
Slavery is immoral and inhumane. You don't just in slave people and work them to death for your own benefit. Treat them like savage animals just to make a profit. Take people out of their homeland and threat them as slaves because of their race, of how they look, or because they 're different. "This disorder that the indentured servant system had created made racial slavery to southern slave holders much more attractive, because what were black slaves now? Well, they were a permanent dependent labor force, who could be defined as a people set apart. They were outsiders. They were strangers and in many ways through out the world where people are considered outsiders and can be put in a permanent status of slavery" -David Blight The Europeans dragged the Africans out of their home country and brought them to America as slaves, just because they were different. After kidnapping potential slaves , they were forced to walk in slave caravans to the European coastal forts, sometimes as far as 1000 miles. Shackled and underfed, only half those people survived these death marches. Those t sick or weary to keep up were left behind to die. Then those who did survive and did reach the coastal forts were put into underground
The Europeans also ad a very cruel punishment system. Whipping, branding, dismembering, castrating or death were all a form of punishment and were all legal for a while. "If you're a white authority you're constantly trying to figure out how tightly you want to impose the lid with expect to people running away. How fierce should the punishments be?Should it be a whipping? Should it be the loss of a finger or a hand of a foot? Should it be wearing shackles perpetually?" (Peter Wood) They didn't care what happened to the slaves, there were so many that they didn't really take their lives seriously. Once the Africans reached America they were converted to Christianity, they were baptized and given Christian names this just shows how immoral the slave traders/holders were changing their religion against their will. The Europeans sent at least ten to twelve million Africans to the Americas.Over the centuries between one and two million persons died in the crossing. Did all these people deserved to die, and all the rest deserve to slave? "Often did I think many of the inhabitants of the deep much happier than myself." Not only is slavery immoral it is racial and could have been substituted. There are several alternatives to slavery. For example with the end of slavery, planters divided their land into small sharecropped farms. A new plantation sy
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