Ap Euro Dbq Essay On Slavery

There is still such a false concept floating around about slavery, even in the twenty-first century. I enjoy reading articles and documents, like the ones provided for this essay, to properly give me an idea of what slavery was like when our ancestors were around. Slavery, even today in schools, is not taught how it should be. Many people, especially in the South, try to ignore slavery as if it never existed, when it is definitely a part of our history. I think there is a falseness, on both ends of slavery, that many people do not talk about; these documents showed me just that. In some villages, slavery was not like how it is talked about today, while in others it is much worse than we could ever imagine in this time. The whole concept

We have some firm documents that prove some things to us, yet there is still so much we do not know about history, because it was not documented. I always thought that slave owners did not think twice about how they treated their slaves. I just assumed they all treated them poorly, they were keeping them basically hostage, right? I got a different insight on this while reading document 3.6 on Joesph Ball. Like most Americans, I made slave owners out to be these horrible people. Which, do not get me wrong, what they were doing was extremely unlawful, unjust, and downright inhumane, but some owners seemed to have treat their people like employees, not like their servants. Joseph Ball instructed his nephew Joseph Chinn to treat his workers well. “The Course Cotton… was assign’d for blankets for my Negroes….Everyone of the workers must have a Good Suite of the Welsh Plain(wool) made as it should be. Each of the children must have a Coat of Worser Cotton….If any of the Negroes should be sick, let them ly by a Good fire; and have fresh Meat and broth.”(3.6) What the African Americans of this time had to go through is absolutely horrible, but it is nice knowing that not all of my ancestors treated them horribly. Joseph Ball seemed to have treated his slaves

I think that all probably really depended on who their owner was. It is hard for me to imagine that anyone would just accept to be treated poorly and owned as a piece of property, but they really hard no choice. If they were being treated well, clothed, fed, and had a shelter, like Joseph Ball’s and Richard Corbin’s people, I doubt there was much resistance. Some, if they weren’t slaves, might not have been fed or clothed as they were lacking jobs and rights in these colonies. While others, weren’t treated the best they could have been, resulted in resist. As bad as it sounds, I am glad there was resist, because I can’t help but think, if there was never anyone fighting back, African Americans might still be treated like that today. Lieutenant Governor William Gooch had some resistance with his slaves. Document 3.9 states that “they had means to get into their possession some arms and ammunition, an they took along with them some provisions, their cloaths, bedding and woking tools”(3.9). This resulted in a few gun shots and one person being wounded. It is extremely sad to know that it came to the point where there were injuries made to humans, all because slave owners did not want to lose money put into their slaves or lose money put into their crops,