Three Aspects Of Slavery

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Slavery is a situation in which human being are owned by other who control where they lives, work and what they do. Slavery has always been a topic people associates with negative implications such as brutality, cruel, inhumane, degradation, separation of families, sexual abuse and lack of freedom. The three aspects of slavery that disgusted me the most are physical abuse, separation of families and sexual abuse. The Physical abuse started on their journey to the Americas with the shackling of African who were cramped in small compartments as human cargo, oftentimes being whipped and abused without being able to defend themselves. Slave’s owners used torturing and beating as a mean of control. Some abuse were triggered by disobedience

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