Slavery Is Inhumane Essay

Sometimes the most serious and repellant crimes committed by humans are nearly invisible. This has been proven true many times through the course our lives because the most inhumane crimes ever committed are often being silenced. Our nation, The United States of America, is often called the free world because we have built this nation on the basis of liberty and justice for all. The concept of freedom has been the groundwork for this country since the dawn of time. In 1776 when the Declaration of Independence was signed, it unanimously stated that, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit …show more content…
It is the brutally killing of a person’s soul without killing the person himself. It breaks the strongest of the wills and manipulates them. Over time slaveholders have developed the process of breaking a slave, a technique used for taming and subduing blacks to behave like a perfect slave. This process is similar to the practice of taming a wild animal. The process is designed to enslave the mind of a colored man making him easier to control physically and having the colored woman raise her children to be as pliable as the slave owners want them to be. If the process is done correctly it would create an endless supply of easy to control slaves, which goes on every single generation without stopping. Other than the breaking of the slaves, the treatment of the slaves wasn’t as favorable either. The treatment of slaves is generally brutal and degrading. Slaves are punished by whipping, lynching and sexual abuse of women, including rape. The punishments are not often because of disobedience or perceived infractions, but masters or overseers sometimes abuse slaves to assert dominance. Slavery is not only dehumanizing but it is damaging to the slaves mentally and physically. The mistreatment of slaves was a frequent situation but slaves still tried to resist it. Some slaves died trying to resist while others sustained psychological and physical …show more content…
This is the golden rule. The core message of nearly every significant spiritual text. In our society this concept has been deteriorated to absolutely nothing. We treat others the way we want to treat them but we expect utmost respect from others. If that is the golden rule then why do we treat colored people as if they are beneath us? We degrade colored people because they look different. Because of their skin color we discriminate them from society. We need to raise public awareness on the topic of slavery. But although public awareness is imperative what we really need to do is to educate our young people about slavery and its horrors. We also need to try to help all the slaves who are trying to escape from the South to the North. What we really need to do is to try to get rid of slavery. Slavery needs to come to an end. It’s an inhumane way of life which teaches our kids to base their judgment solely on looks. As James Madison once said, “No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” This implies that if we all are too busy fighting amongst ourselves, we leave our nation vulnerable to our enemies. We have to remember that a house divided against itself cannot stand. What we need to do is to change our negative way of life. We have to be more superior than the last generation. We have to correct the ways of our