Summary : The Slave Next Door

For more than three and a half centuries, the forcible bondage of at least twelve million men, women, and children from their African homelands to the Americas forever changed the face and character of the western hemisphere. The slave trade was brutal and horrific, and the enslavement of Africans was cruel, exploitative, and dehumanizing. The trade represented one of the longest and most sustained assaults on the life, integrity, and dignity of human beings in world history.

Slavery has been a major component of human civilization all throughout history. People turn to slavery for many reasons, such as fear of different ethnicities and fear that these new foreign people will take over land that is not theirs. The conditions under which slaves work and live varies greatly by the time and location of which the slaves lived. Slaves play a major role in their society and contribute greatly to their communities, often forming one of the largest masses of the population. Though the accuracy of the information from primary sources may be tainted with exaggeration and bias, it is easy to deduce from primary works the treatment of slaves and the working and living conditions surrounding them. According to many sources,

Slavery is a condition in which individuals are owned by others, who control where they work and live. Slavery has been around since the 1600’s. Jacobs a young female who recounts her life in the book “Incident’s in the life of a slave girl”, gives us an in depth look into her life and how she overcame slavery and gained herself the title of freedom. Now life was not easy for Jacobs. She struggled for much of her life and the kids she had out of wedlock had to suffer because she was a slave. Slavery is not a status that anyone wants to have especially if you are a woman and a slave.

The changes of slavery shown through American history from the eighteenth and nineteenth-century, dealing with the horrific brutality and inhumane treatment accepted by much of society, all of the way up to present day, as we just recently had America’s first black president Barrack Obama elected in 2008, show drastic improvements on a national crisis that can be heavily credited to the great historical abolitionist of their time and even still the modern day abolitionists continuing to fight. The abolitionist movement was not simply pushed forward by groups of individuals who agreed on the basis that slavery and what was going on at the time was wrong, but instead was heavily impacted by key individuals who typically had experienced first person what it was like on the side of the chained captive workers who were seen as nothing more than mere property they owned. And while for a multitude of those held captive the only life they

The Atlantic slave trade was a type of trade that occurred from the 15th through the 19th centuries; however, it flourished in the 17th and 18th centuries. During this time, Africans were taken from their homes in their native country of Africa and sent in organized trade to Europe and the America’s. These slaves were forced to work on plantations in extremely poor working environments and conditions. They were often physically tortured by their owner’s and were denied basic human rights. Ultimately, the terrible treatment of these slaves led to opposition from numerous groups and organizations.

Slave by definition is a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them. That about sums up what slavery really is in our mind and is pretty much the definition that we all picture when we think about slaves and slavery. But this is not what slavery truly was within the antebellum time period. Most of the slaves had a whole different outlook on the way they viewed, and acted and while living in their unfortunate circumstances. This is one of the few things that will be discussed further on within this paper. The main concept of this paper will be to discuss slavery in three sections; these sections will be discussing the types of people who were enslaved, and the nature of their bondage in the first section. The

The authors did a great job of starting the second part with a strong introduction that makes the reader feel that human trafficking exists and it exists next to us. “The harsh truth is, modern-day slavery is in your town. You are not protected from it by nationality, race gender, or income. It can afflict anyone – gardener down the street, the construction crew on a local office building, your neighbor’s housekeeper, your daughter on

People have their equal right, and should not be ranked depending on their skin color or gender. However, because of the greed of wealth, some people discarded their basic humanity and discipline, and made excuses to justify their cruelty, so the slavery became like a tumor to parasitize the human society rapidly. With physical and psychological abuse, this “tumor” tortured every struggling people from day to night. As the insight of a dark history, Frederick Douglass’s “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave” demonstrates the dehumanization of an inhuman society and how slavery could make a man be a salve and make another man be an enslaver and how he resisted this dehumanization.

The controversies surrounding slavery have been established in many societies worldwide for centuries. In past generations, although slavery did exists and was tolerated, it was certainly very questionable,” ethically“. Today, the morality of such an act would not only be unimaginable, but would also be morally wrong. As things change over the course of history we seek to not only explain why things happen, but as well to understand why they do. For this reason, we will look further into how slavery has evolved throughout History in American society, as well as the impacts that it has had.

Throughout history, humanity has exhibited its prowess for compassion, and its capacity for evil. In the wake of recent natural disasters, specifically the tropical storms which have devastated island nations and the southern state of Texas, citizens and companies alike have banded together to provide supplies and aid. In contrast, three hundred years ago a system was implemented, a system in which its effects of can still be seen today’s in racial division. Instituted on the basis of Caucasian and European superiority, racial based slavery thrived; slaves taken from Africa were no longer humans, but a commodity- just like soy is in the modern day. Slaves were brought to the Americas on large ships. On these large ships, those who survived the voyage would have endured grotesque living conditions, and various forms of abuse. The mistreatment of slaves was overlooked because the trade was a profitable business, and became more profitable as America began to efficiently produce regional based commodities: the demand for labor increased and the price of slaves decreased, the trade began to flourish once it was realized that slavery maximized profits for colonial producers. As more slaves were shipped, word of what occurs on the ships and the purpose of their voyage spread. In fear of what happens on the ships, slaves utilized different forms of resistance to escape their future, such as escaping captivity, mutiny, and suicide.

When we hear the terms “slave” or “slave trade” the first thing that comes to mind is African Americans. Slave trade a term taught often in history classes has a meaning that has now become synonymous with African American. There term trade summons up images of exchanging goods for service. The sad truth is that this has not become a common sequence, almost like a math equation whose answer is always African American. Some useful ways to talk about slave trade is by restoring humanity to the millions who died under the racial global order. By referring to slave trade as “european slave trade” we are able to disconnect the word african from slave trade however, it gives the audience the wrong idea concerning the awful things these people went through. We need to bring humanity back to the name of the African Americans.

The daily life of a slave in North Carolina was incredibly difficult. Hard workers, especially those in the field, played from sunrise until sundown. Even small kids and the elderly were not exempt from these long work hours. Slaves were generally granted a day off on Sunday, and on infrequent holidays such as Christmas or the Fourth of July.

When we hear the word slavery our mind paints a picture of colonial America down in the South with big plantation houses harvesting wheat, with workers being unpaid and unfairly treated. At this time in our county we were struggling with the idea of equality for all. America has come a long way from those days but not with out a fight. Abraham Lincoln, the Civil Rights moment and free and public education has been addressed. Today, we face a new conflicts and a different type of slavery. Slavery and sex trafficking is occurring not just abroad but at home as well. In 2004, “800,000 to 9000,000 men women and children are trafficked across international borders every year, including 18,000 to 20,000 in the US. Worldwide slavery is in the

From the 17th century until the 19th century, almost twelve million Africans were brought to the New World against their will to perform back-breaking labour under terrible conditions. The rationalizations and defences given for slavery and the slave trade were absurd and self-serving. Slavery was a truly barbaric, and those who think that they can control what another group of people eat, where they sleep, whether they are to live or die, or even whether they are to be bought or sold, are acting on a totally inhumane level.

For many decades, slavery is one of the customary that determine between rich and poor, or determine the hierarchy and the social status in the societies. As of now, slavery is still present in different parts of the world and it seems like a passage way spelled by a slave victim. Kendall defined “slavery is an extreme form of stratification in which some people are owned or controlled by others for the purpose of economic or sexual exploitation” – (Kendall, p.203). Kendall explains that slavery is a mandate to our society. I believe that a person is enslave, he/she may exhibits tough behavior that may trigger her/his psychological functioning. The level of slavery is present in the world in the new century is extremely high in numbers. It is estimated 20.9 million people are enslave worldwide according to the International Labor organization (ILO).