American Slave Family

Imagine that your ancestors are taken from their home country, their family, and everything they worked for in their life by strangers. Most historians think there were 11 million Africans were taken out of Africa by European slave traders. After being kidnapped they were put on slave ships to come to America or other European countries to be sold in a public auction. The boat ride was horrible, millions of Africans died, some through sickness, suicide and even murder at the hands of the slave crew and captains. This is all happening because of the color of their skin. If strong and lucky enough to survive the slave ships, slaves would be publicly auctioned, they were sold to the person that bid the most money for them. It was here that family members would be forced to split up, because the slave owner might only want the strongest and healthiest member. They were bought like property, …show more content…
So now it must get better rights? Surely nothing can be worse than losing everything including your family….keep reading. After the auction, the slave would go to his or her master's house.The slave had no type of rights whatsoever, This would mean they would get a new name given from their master, and work really hard for up to 18 hours a day in terrible conditions. On average slaves only lived up to 7 years because they were worked to death. It wasn’t just whipping, black women and even girls as little as 10 years old were raped by their master, slaves were also lynched a lot. Killing a slave was not considered murder since they were seen as property. According to PBS, Slavery in the north lasted 245 years. It was the civil war that ended slavery with the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments. The 13th Amendment states “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their