Honestly there is no way to measure the strength it took to be a slave. To constantly search for yourself in the empty words of people who were deemed the superior over you, or to have your family ripped apart to teach you lessons on obedience as if you were some type of show animal. Slavery was and is the truest form of disrespect to human life. Those with the power didn’t see the value behind every life, just the ones that mirrored themselves. The act of becoming richer and powerful also played a major role in the continuance of slavery. For some reason, people believed in order to be happy there needed to be money and some type of control over another person.
Slavery was a manipulation over people who strongly believed they had no power or real essence to humanity. Slavery was also a business endeavor that has financially supported people of European decent for over three hundred years. The system worked because there was a demand for certain goods and no real sense of right and wrong. There appeared to be a need for cheap labor and a desire of power. Even though there were always more slaves than slave …show more content…
It even appeared they didn’t mind being owned by another human as long as the owner was nice enough to give shelter, food, and sometimes protection. The act of being passed around to different family members was normal and widely accepted. There was no knowledge of what it meant to be ones own self, just what it meant to operate as someone’s property. Once the ability to be free was available it appeared a majority felt as if the lives as they knew it was over. There were reports of slaves saying they felt the happiest when others owned them rather than being a free human being. Based on the reports it appeared a lot of slaves experienced Stockholm syndrome, where the oppressors/kidnappers appeared to be the friend that was just trying to
Slavery was a manipulation over people who strongly believed they had no power or real essence to humanity. Slavery was also a business endeavor that has financially supported people of European decent for over three hundred years. The system worked because there was a demand for certain goods and no real sense of right and wrong. There appeared to be a need for cheap labor and a desire of power. Even though there were always more slaves than slave …show more content…
It even appeared they didn’t mind being owned by another human as long as the owner was nice enough to give shelter, food, and sometimes protection. The act of being passed around to different family members was normal and widely accepted. There was no knowledge of what it meant to be ones own self, just what it meant to operate as someone’s property. Once the ability to be free was available it appeared a majority felt as if the lives as they knew it was over. There were reports of slaves saying they felt the happiest when others owned them rather than being a free human being. Based on the reports it appeared a lot of slaves experienced Stockholm syndrome, where the oppressors/kidnappers appeared to be the friend that was just trying to