The History Of Slavery

The sun is beating. Your body is aching. Your fingernails broken, ripped, and torn out. Backs covered with strips of cold, dried blood. The stinging in your back rides up your spine from the lashes. The wounds, tinted with a bright plum color like fresh grown lantanas blooming in your backyard. Sweat gracefully slides down against your dark skin. Drop. Drop. Drop. The drips of sweat smash onto the field of grass and dirt. The wiff of body odor and stench in the atmosphere disperse. As you look to your left, another slave had blood dripping from their arms. The bright red color gleamed on the sunlight and ran down the body. Others tongue´s dried. Throat closing up from lack of food and water. The thought of fresh baked bread makes your stomach …show more content…
Each night, a slave would go to bed starving, bleeding, and emotionally traumatized. Yet, their slave owner could go to bed peacefully, knowing that outside their doors another human being is dying because of them. How could they dress their children with clothes that originated from the worn out fingers of slaves, even more how could they look right in the eyes of the poor African Americans as their blood drips down their body, and continue to beat them? As a matter of fact, southerners became entitled to own and discipline their slaves. They abused them like no one in the world can picture today. Each and everyday slave owners were able to beat, torture, and starve slaves and live their life peacefully. Slave owners were able to justify the cruel institution of slavery using their religion, the Bible, Jacksonian Democracy, and the economy as reasons in their defense of southern …show more content…
“But with the rise of Jacksonian Democracy, they began to race as the easiest way to justify democracy for whites only… Several aspects of a person 's identity mattered with respect to social distinction, and certainly race was an important one (Project MUSE,1) Basically, what slave owners are saying is that slaves influence democracy in the south. This also talks about how a person’s identity is mostly determined by their color of skin. “Whites not have to work for others because the slaves provided the labor. With this level of independence, all whites could…eventually become a landowner. These property-owning white men could then vote…increasing democracy (Project MUSE,1).” Lacy K. Ford is saying how slaves are able to be beaten because of the Jacksonian Democracy. During that time period, they became to favor and started to only focus on whites only. Whites came to a conclusion that if they became landowners, the slaves would be able to do the job in the fields for them. Slave owners believed that slavery was the base foundation of freedom and once negroes feel that they have a piece of freedom the whole government will fall