Response To Slavery Research Paper

This account reveals that slavery took a turn towards abuse for sexual relations. Slaves were now being taken care of and slave owners took pride in them. The slave traders can call it what they believe but just because the think they were taking care of slave women doesnt mean they have the rightl to use women bodies. They were taken advantage of. Slavery made it easier for owners,masters do as they please. They felt like they were in charge and felt they indeed had a right to do as they please. Rape was common and it brought down the morale of the slaves. Just because they owned slaves doesnt mean that African American women should be taken advantage of, they are people too. These acts were unjust but again the masters didnt care they wanted …show more content…
The Paternalist Ethos is what slave owners now believed , basically states that the slaves could come to them for protection.That doesnt make any sense to me. Slave owwers began to believe they were doing good deeds and almost in some believed they deserved this.This incident shows slavery growing worse because not only did they have to work, not free but now they couldnt have a peace of mind. This is getting more deep phyically and mentally. Many slaves just took it and tried to put their minds elsewhere when the acts occured. Slave owners tried to justify their acts.This is sickening and I feel bad for whomever had to go through with this. It reveals that the masters needed to feel more empowered and that in their minds this was okay, that they owned them,so they owned the slaves body as well. This act shows that wives of the slave owners were jealous and in some ways blamed the slaves as if they wanted or had a choice to take part in the actions. The wives didnt want to believe in what they thought were lies. They would take the frustration out on the slaves. All in all this was nasty and I dont know what processed them to do those kinds of things.This had become a natural reoccuring