Hello this is Tim and I'm about black history in my U.S. History class in school. We have learned many things about black history. We have leaned about slavery and about many of the horrible hardships they've gone through. They had it hard coming to america from africa. The slaves were rarely fed and if the ship was running out of the food slavers would throw the slaves overboard. The slavers did that because it was cheaper to kill the slaves than to feed them. The slaves would only get about 1 hour a day to excersize on the top deck. Many of the slaves died on the trip to america. The ones that did not die on the way were soon wishing they had. When the slave ship got to america the slaves were washed and oiled up to look good on the auction block. Once on the auction block the slaves were sold to the highest bidder. Families were torn apart from each other by getting sold to different owners. Once the slaves were sold they were taken to their new owners plantation. Life on the platation was horrible if you were sold in the south. Well about any platation a slave is on is going to be horrible. If the slave mouthed off they'd be whipped, they ran they would be whipped beaten and most likely chained.
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Hi Tim,
The words you used to describe slavery in your post made me feel the horrors of slavery. When you wrote "horrible hardships" and "families were torn apart", you helped me feel the agony of slavery. I think that's really important, because you were talking about people's lives.
Why do you think it is so important to tell the story of slavery in history, or is it?
Best,
Lani
Posted by: Lani | February 10, 2006 at 05:56 PM
Hey Lani thank youfor the comment. My answer to your question is that it is very important to tell the story of slavery so we can recognize our wrong doings. Also so we can never do something that horrible to our fellow human beings.
P.s. Lani you should check my boy Chis's weblog on this website it's very educational.
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