What Does Slavery Mean To Me

While watching this documentary, I was filled with mixed emotions. There were many things that I was feeling while watching it. I felt very bad for the people that had to go through these difficult times. I also personally felt like as this documentary was happening, people where automatically looking at me differently because I was white and the slave owner was white. I feel like this could just be me, but I whenever it comes to racial issues like slavery, I feel like people look at me differently. I felt like this documentary was very informative because I felt like it helped me and other people learn more about slavery. During some parts, it was hard for me to watch because the amount of abuse that was happening.
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It is sad for me to see little children suffering like they did in this episode. When the daughter got taken away because the white daughter taught her how to read and write was the hardest part for me to watch. When this was happening, I was just thinking about all the people that have had to go through this. I also felt bad for the parents because it would be so hard to lose your child.
When Kizzy was raped by the white man and got pregnant, I felt so bad. I know that this was very common in the world during that time so then the white men could get free slaves, but I just felt like it was so unnecessary. Then his wife was standing right outside the building when it was happening with a saddened look on her face. I always wonder what the women thinks of these situations. I feel like this woman felt like she wasn’t good enough for her husband, so her husband had to go to the black women because that was the best that he could do at the time. I felt like Kizzy was very scared at the time because she was helpless in these moments. I know that if I was Kizzy, I would have been terrified and wanted to get away, but there was no way I …show more content…
I felt like this episode was very impactful. The war to abolish slavery was very important and the way that they represented it was very well done. To me it was sad to see all the white men shooting the down all the Africans during the war. In this part, it was sad because they did not have any right to shoot them. They felt like they could because they were white and had more authority, but the black men where surrendering.
It was also sad to see George go through so much after he had been free. I guess I didn’t really see the whole picture of slavery after the war. I thought that after the war they didn’t have to work for the white men, but they were still treated unfairly. It was hard for me to find out that after the war they still had to work for the white men and weren’t technically free.
This whole series was very sad but informative for me. In the end of the series, I felt like I learned a lot more about slavery than I did before. I have never really liked talking about slavery because it is a very hard topic to talk about. Many people blame all white people so it is harder for me to talk about it and ask because people find it disrespectful of me to do that