Skin Vs Slavery

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Is it fair to judge and treat someone a certain way because their skin color is different from your race?Treating someone bad and harsh because of the color of their skin is such a horrible thing to do.You basically tell yourself you know this person already because of their race and basically give your opinion on the man or woman without even meeting the person or even have a conversation with them.This is a creation made by man and was pushed out by others.

Back in the day the white man had a few people working for them.European countries forced Africans onto slave ships and transported them across the atlantic ocean.These workers wasnt just ordinary workers, they did work strictly for this man ,the workers had couple things in common except
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Slavery in america began when the first african slaves were brought to the north american colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619, to aid in the production of such crops as tobacco. Slavery was practiced throughout the american colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries, and African-American slaves helped build the economic foundations of the new nation. The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 solidified the central importance of slavery to the south’s economy. .A slave was basically a maid times 100 they made you do the most harsh and hardest things, there were no breaks and barely any food they treated them like animals and made sure living for them were …show more content…
Another 30 percent became as punishment for crimes or indebtedness. The remainder were kidnapped by black traders. The crazy thing about this is that slaves wasnt just owned by anglo americans they were owned by different races also.African americans had slaves,so we cant just keep saying white people were the only ones who had slaves or treat people wrong.We did each other wrong ,but the difference in this is anglo americans treated us a different way and made us do things cause the color of our skin.Others just did it to get work done.They treated us as like we were just regular items.They traded us for supplies , food, and crops.Picture a man in a store walking around with a little boy with some chains and had a price tag on him for sale.This is exactly how they had us they treated us like a piece of meat.This is so disrespectful and

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