Slavery will be forever known as a terrible act upon African American men, women, and children that destroyed them mentally and physically. It has been argued many times what was worse on slaves, the mental pain or the physical pain. The mental pain was by far worse on the slaves then the physical pain was. This is true because slaveholders would mentally break down slaves by making the slaves believe they were not equal to other humans, the slaveholders made the slaves live in fear, and they had the slaves loose all hope that they could eventually be free. The physical pain the slaves went through was awful, but temporary. Many of the slaves would have rathered to die instead of face the mental pain of slavery.
