The use of slavery in 18th and 19th century America is unjust because it exposes innocent people to physical, emotional, and social abuse promoting an inhospitable society. Slaves were inflicted with emotional abuse from their masters, setting bad examples for their successors. Slave owners established immoral norms in human labor that violate people’s rights and lifestyle as humans, such as, excluding slaves from schooling; breeding women like animals and separating slaves from their families. According to a former slave, he was separated from his mother in a market, “There am lots of crying when they tooks me away from my mommy.” he was wrongly abducted from his family in a country of which he is already estranged, to work in a plantation
