Slavery - Jack Johnson 9E Slavery. Doesn’t that word ring a couple of bells in your mind? Perhaps the common merchant or the lady of leisure would think profitable but there are some that think otherwise. Some that resonate the sound of justice. Slavery is a peculiar thing, at the expense of other people 's joy we bring ourselves joy. Isn 't that ironic? The very thing we strive to defeat is right under our noses yet we are too blind to see it. If only we opened our eyes to the situation at hand nobody will get hurt, no more pain and no more sadness. These slaves, these slaves are men, women and children just like you and your families. Would you want them to be handcuffed? Whipped? Beaten? Then why are treating these innocent people as if they were cattle? We move them along as if they were sheep yet we are not the shepherds, we are the wolves. We prey on these people and rob them of their pride my fellow citizens, thieves may steal gold but they cannot steal our …show more content…
Fortunately mr John Wesley is another kind and gentle human being that braved the hells of Africa 's slave system and saw another option for trade between the transatlantic slave trade. He witnessed and described fruitful and pleasant fields, with bountiful fruit, plenty of oil and tons upon tons of rice and other grains. He described the beautiful kingdoms of Benin, Congo and Angola as well as the types of trade they could do there. All three kingdoms have master smiths, horse tamers, potters and weavers. They use these talented ones to create different items to trade to one another, they make the finest iron throughout Africa and can work magic on Gold and Silver. This is the type of trade we could be doing with Africa yet we are forcing them to attack each other for our own purposes. This, is not humane, I said it before fellow citizens and I will say it again. This, is, not,