The practice of slavery is just plain unacceptable in itself. Slaves were brutally beaten down to their flesh with lifetime scars and burns that were eternally permanent. Africans were kidnapped due to the racial discrimination occurring, and the torture and suffering Africans faced can wound someones spirit eternally. Selling an individual for profit and taking their dignity away does not condone the slave owners blasphemous actions.Respect was ridiculously lacked towards the African culture. Whites walked around as if they ruled the world. It was as if Africans were just placed on earth to be workers and have no "say-so". It got to the point that if an African knew too much or had too much knowledge then they would be punished for that. "Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due".
Through marching barefoot over mountains, overcoming diseases and sickness, and bruises all over their bodies is what slave owners allowed. Being treated badly gave some slaves the courage to run away just to have a better life. Slaves who rebelled were killed and those who fell sick were left to die. It was either you're strong or you're not.
I've always wondered why slaves were treated so low. The labor of enslaved Africans fueled almost the entire sugar industry. If it wasn't for Africans and the hard labor they did, we would not have a lot of things that we have today. Slavery brings out the irreverence in individuals.
Slavery in my eyes has nothing positive to it. African slaves lost many loved ones, close friends, family, cousins, brothers, sisters, etc. The whites were "money hungry" so they turned to slaves for profit. If slave owners were really all about "good citizenship" then it wouldn't have been a problem for them to go about slavery a different way. The ignorance displayed through whites has scarred African Americans eternally.
