Throughout this book I was mainly intrigued by Chapter 12 for several reasons. I have always been curious about slave life and this chapter really made me think about our past generations. The fact that people in our country actually lived that way, as if they were not people at all, seems all too unreal but it is unfortunately a part of our history. We are past the days of slavery within our county, but still to this day we have problems with equality, a lot of that being minorities. Daily I hear and see stories about inequality and racism still going on in our streets and even schools which caused my attraction to this chapter. The History behind the slave trade is so strong and at some points hard to read and realize what actually happened back in the harshest and most frowned upon times of America.
Document 12-1 is a document in which a professor of ancient languages at the university of North Carolina named Ethan Andrews observed the first hand …show more content…
Some of his observations enlightened me to degree. In the opening line of this document the professor states that a gentleman has purchased a female slave in order to prevent her separation from her husband. This exact point confused me because when I think of slave traders I don't think of them necessarily as very humane in the sense of them caring about whether a slave is married or in love. This was the first time that I have read a document where the slave trader is being humane and actually putting forth the effort to keep these two slaves together. Andrews even goes further on the subject of marriage “All which it appears possible to do, is to regulate the sales in sucha manner, that husbands and wives, parents and young children, shall never be
Document 12-1 is a document in which a professor of ancient languages at the university of North Carolina named Ethan Andrews observed the first hand …show more content…
Some of his observations enlightened me to degree. In the opening line of this document the professor states that a gentleman has purchased a female slave in order to prevent her separation from her husband. This exact point confused me because when I think of slave traders I don't think of them necessarily as very humane in the sense of them caring about whether a slave is married or in love. This was the first time that I have read a document where the slave trader is being humane and actually putting forth the effort to keep these two slaves together. Andrews even goes further on the subject of marriage “All which it appears possible to do, is to regulate the sales in sucha manner, that husbands and wives, parents and young children, shall never be