Most Beloved Pope Analysis

Dearest Beloved Pope,

While I am being detained in Portugal by King João, I have witnessed how Africa has played a flexible major role in the slave trade. Our fellow members of the community have been taken over by the lust for slave profits that included our men, women, and their children. I have seen a large amount of women being held in their master’s household cooking, cleaning and doing other errands. Our men are being overworked in gold mines while being fed and treated well once the work was done meanwhile losing faith in their beliefs. Our traditional values, relationships between kingdoms, religious communities, and the free were then subverted. However, this is completely different from the horrors I have seen in the trans-Atlantic slave trades. African men and women are being kidnapped, purchased and sold into bondage to pay debts. I have walked by shaved naked men and women who have been stripped of all clothing, and branded with a red hot iron. Each day I have seen our traders transport slaves in bad conditions such as, food and water contamination. Additionally, due to these bad conditions diseases started to sprung upon our people such as, measles, scurvy, and Ophthalmia. This continuously occurred until some people found the courage to stop suffering silently and began to rebel. Although, the Europeans were already prepared for any rebellious actions against them …show more content…
The separation of families and the overwhelming feeling affected our well being that some chose to starve themselves during the two meals that consisted of fish, horse beans, rice, yams and meat which was extremely rare. African people are being emotionally traumatized especially when they are being separated from their beloved families never to be seen again, and constantly being degraded and treated like