What Impact Did Slavery Have On African American Society

During slavery, many whites were poor. In the south who ever was considered to be a poor white was treated like trash almost as bad as the slaves. About 70% of white people during slavery were middle class people. Bringing up how some white people were treated in the during the time of slavery make me ease up on the hatred that I had for whites then. I was told that during slavery times all whites were horrible people. Now that I know that not only 20% owned slaves, but whites treated other whites terrible. I am also aware that all whites were not bad people in fact many helped African Americans. Some of the reason that we as people are able to live in an environment where sometimes color does not exist is because of what the slave went through. Slaves were treated very harsh, put in harsh living facilities, and worked hours upon hours, and this was nowhere near right also leading to many problems in the world …show more content…
We still have race issues going on in 2015. I believe that slavery is the lead cause of racism. Although slavery was many years ago and caused not only America problems, but other countries problems too. Some countries that had slaves may not be as racism as Americans, but they still held people captive. Slavery might have drove a wedge in between the further years of Americans society, but were have to look at book side of the picture. Yes, I am an African American who believes that slavery was not a good thing, but I also believe that slavery shaped America into becoming a better place. The 20% of whites who owned slaves even though it was a terrible thing who are we to judge. We have no clue what was going on in their minds maybe they really needed help with crops and could not afford to pay another person to help take care of the crops. Although slavery is over racism is not over the ending of slavery helped a lot with the ending of some