The Importance Of Slave Education

There once was a boy that was born on a plantation in Alabama in 1852 into a slave family. Slavery was stronger than ever in the south with all the money plantation owners were making off the labor of enslaved African Americans. The little boy’s master sent him to work on the cotton fields at the young age of six, and he had to work to sunrise to sunset under the supervision of slave masters. The slave masters were cruel to the slaves, and they would enjoy humiliating and beating the slaves. One day the plantation owner invited his slaves to have thanksgiving dinner with his family, and the boy saw a book in the plantation owner’s house. Even though the little boy was a slave, he always wanted to learn how to read, but it was against the law …show more content…
Your family line in America starts at a trading port on the west coast of Africa. Your ancestors were stripped of all their possessions and properties in Africa, and were rounded up like cattle by slave traders. Your ancestors were then forced into slave ships that were very inhumane, but they somehow survived the long vogue to America in slave ships were diseases spread rampant. After reaching America they ended up being auctioned off to white people, where they were forced to do the unpaid labor that made America the country that it is today. Even after your African American received their liberation from slavery by the 13 amendment they still were oppressed. African Americans had little to no rights as a human being, and were denied any access of the means by which they could improve the life of themselves or their children. African Americans did not receive an equal education, equal access to housing, and equal access to job opportunities. Even after legal discrimination was banned in America, African American are negatively impact by laws that target African American communities. Your family line in America has had to go through varies forms of discrimination it is hard to accumulate any type of significant …show more content…
America is a capitalistic society. Living in poverty will cause you to go to bed hungry. Living in poverty causes you to go to a poor school system. It also causes you to live in fear because you live in the ghetto where you will see some of your closest friends be shot. Living in poverty can prevent you from doing any afterschool activities that you are passionate about because your mom has to work around the clock just to make ends meet, so you are forced to be a parent at a young age raising your little brothers and sisters. Living in poverty will cause you to live a life full of stress and frustration. At times your life situation will look hopeless because of the lack of opportunities. With little opportunities to make a better life for yourself, and organized crime all around you it is easy for you to get caught up in illegal activities like drug dealing that can put you in