Chattel Slavery: The Slave Culture

“The Hardships of a Slave” The autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave depicted the life of a slave during the 1800’s. Not only did it explain the life of Frederick Douglass, but also, the life of his family and friends around him. It showed the true severe and harsh treatment of African Americans during this time. Around this time, being an African American meant you were treated as less than human, property, an animal. Slaves were pushed and chastised simply because of the color of their skin, something they had no control over.

The slaves were dressed up well, oiled on their bodies and feed up good . The traders relied on the slaves to act their part as valuable commodities. When a slave was bought by a master, they would be stripped and asked for their past, aspecting honest answers from the traders. The masters would use the information against the traders asking for a sale to their own advantage. A lot of Southern Whites were effected by slavery and this market to the point that a lot of them identify themselves based on their ownership of slaves.

Slavery was an important time period that is still affecting American society today. For 400 years, Africans were enslaved by Americans and were forced to do hard labor in harsh conditions. They were forced to pick cotton, harvest and plant rice and build railroads. Slavery began in America in 1619 when countries in Europe would kidnap Africans and send them to America on boats. This time period is important due to the devastating actions that happened to Africans and what they did to change the course of history.

Early modern slavery is typically defined as the forced labor of millions of Africans between the 16th and 19th centuries. It was filled with brutality, sickness, and inhumanity perpetrated by white, colonialist Europeans who were searching for wealth in a foreign land through cash crops and servitude. However, there was a different kind of slavery perpetrated in the African continent: servitude where “they were only prisoners of war, or…had been convicted of kidnapping or adultery” (Equiano, 30). Olaudah Equiano’s narrative, published in 1789, reveals a story of slavery perpetrated by his own people. This revelation brings to the light the difference in societal standing and ultimate economic worth of the individuals.

.Atlantic Slave Trade: Supported Opinion Paper Slavery has been evident from very the early stages of life, from the ancient times, to today in which illegal manners still take place. However, during the 16th to the 19th century, millions of Africans were captured, beaten, tortured and killed due to the major demand in the need for labour while Europeans decided to settle into the new world. The captains of the transporting ships have a major role in supporting the slavery business, while proving their fault and immense guilt throughout the many accounts and statements made by witnesses and slaves themselves. Their ethical stance, economic conditions and social forces play a role into the push for slaves and their gruesome transportation

These writings provide a better understanding to how slaves were treated, and how it contradicts the Bible. A majority of those who were in slavery were there by force or birth. Many believe that slavery was only in America, and the only slaves were Africans, but this is false thinking. Slavery has occurred within every nation and every race has been a slave at one time. Booker T. Washington gives the best

The captives were treated with a lot of cruelty and hostility as they were being forced into the ships to be transported for slavery. They were later compelled to work and live under new intolerable conditions. Most of the slaves who were captured dwelled in small villages in West Africa and were usually kidnapped at dawn when they were fresh for their duties of the day. Their village would be raided by their enemy tribe which would then burn the hurts, their residing places to the ground. Those who escaped the capture were very few since most of those who were captured unknowingly were taken to the slave ships as some were killed when they tried to resist being frustrated, tortured as well as bullied.

The Thirteenth through Fifteenth Amendments A Compromise Between Slave Tradition and the United States Mei Harter English Language Arts 8A Mrs. Finkell 15 February 2018 Do you know how many painful practices that slaves had, before the rise of the Thirteenth through the Fifteenth Amendments? In America’s history, the color of a man defined how he would live. This rule was treacherous for the slaves, who were mostly made up of the African American race. As a result, many slaves were ripped away from their families. They were forced to walk in chains; slaves were sold, starved, and left to die.

The dehumanization Solomon Northup experienced after being kidnapped and forced into slavery was rampant throughout the institution of slavery as a whole. If anything, dehumanization was a vital and fundamental aspect of enslavement, a key characteristic in the perpetuation and expansion of the system. It was a tactic predominantly utilized by white slave owners to separate themselves from their slaves, to further engrain the notion of white supremacy into an already racially split society. Northup’s experiences, which he detailed in his book Twelve Years A Slave, only served to amplify the light shed on the atrocities committed during the antebellum era, and the points he made and examples he gave of the dehumanization that occurred bolstered the argument that dehumanization wasn’t only a physical attack, but in fact reached deeper. Throughout his book, Northup provided numerous instances of how dehumanization within slavery occurred outside of physical violence and assault, and could instead be seen in the restriction of

The Second Middle Passage of was large to the point that it separated numerous families and caused much hardship. Another student of history, Peter Kolchin showed that this huge scale relocation rehashed ghastly conditions of the Atlantic slave exchange by separating current families and compelling slaves to move a long way from everybody and all that they were well-known too. This had been portrayed as the "focal occasion" in the life of a slave between the American Revolution and the Civil War. As per Berlin that in spite of the idea that the slaves were specifically killed or lived in expectation that they or their families would be moved without wanting to, the grand exile and transportation stunned dark people, both slave and free. Educators Franklin and Moss (2000) have depicted in their book named "From Slavery to Freedom" the time and reasons for the start of subjugation, and the improvement of a recognized and discrete culture among slaves and free blacks.

The Fugitive Slave Acts were an act of rebellion against slaves escaping. There was already the fugitive slave act that was created in 1793 to allow slave masters to force slaves back into captivity, but it was not enforced that much. By 1850, there were many slaves that escaped and the since there could not be any more slaves imported, the price of a slave rose exponentially. The new acts in 1850 forced any citizen who saw a runaway slave to catch them, and “It also denied slaves the right to a jury trial and increased the penalty for interfering with the rendition process to $1000 and six months in jail” (History.com). This was a method rebellion against slaves for escaping, but the act fell through quickly because by then, almost no one

Slavery during colonial times and slavery today have many common traits. Both affect our everyday lives and well being. Slavery during colonial times forced African Americans to be taken from their homes and they were obligated to do hard labor with no pay. Slavery today is not to another person but to materials, this causes people to work long hours a week to spend it all on unecesary and expensive comodities. Another trait they have in common slavery is a social issue its’s the ideal that in order for things to run smoothly we have to earn money through tough labor, it’s the mentality that in order to sustain an acceptable society someone has to be working their entire life.

The South was a slave society, with nearly every aspect of life touched by the presence of a brutal institution rooted in the dehumanization of black people and the supremacy of white males. At the time of Celia’s trial, Southerners felt that this way of life was being threatened by heated politics playing out both in Kansas and at home. Her fate was guided by the decisions and reactions of Southerners living in this uncertain atmosphere. These decisions, though they are what logically led to Celia’s death, were inevitably and inseparably connected to the institution of slavery. In a sense, the individual decisions were merely a means to an end, an end decided by the fact that Celia lived in a slave society that couldn’t afford the cost of her justice.

In 1808, slavery was gone in the Northern states but in the South it still remained a part of their life. This caused the beginning of smuggling slave into the states. As time went by there grew political problems between the northern states and southern states. Feuding grew causing blood to be shed. The Issue eventually led to them seceding from the union (Slavery in America).