Emotional Toll During Slavery

Emotional toll during slavery

Slavery is a topic most wouldn’t like to speak on especially nowadays but in the 1800’s it was quite a different ball game. Slavery was brought over to the U.S. in the 1800s bring Africans over to here to only be sold and to be worked to death.

Within the story’s that were read there was a ton of racial things that happened on plantations causing slaves to run away hide and escape from their masters to avoid brutal beatings in one of the storylines the woman also a mom left her kids for the safety of them but only she put them in more danger and put them in harm's way as they had to become workers in the field instead of having it easy the beatings had taken a toll on their mental and physical state it demoralized

Most of the slaves in the field were victims of this they were beaten some even witnessed it and it was all over taking a breaks or not even working hard and it was. House slaves on the other hand may have not felt with this problem but I can almost assure they felt with the racial slurs and it probably was mentally defeating for them because they knew if they fought back that would mean they would be in the fields along with the others working day and night hard as they can. Even slaves couldn’t be in public or without their master at least or else they’d be accused as a runaway and would be resold and more than likely end up somewhere else away from their families and never see them again who knows. The emotional toll taken out upon these slaves was from the fear of harsh punishment was

Everyone looks at thing their own way you can be like every other slave and except slavery or be like Douglas and retaliate or like the story “Incidents in the life of a slave girl” The mother leaves the estate to run away. Little did her master or anyone know she hid in the attic for years hiding away from the harsh conditions and dictatorship under her master. Overall the emotional toll took away from these slaves and it ruined them as people for the rest of their lives they were probably terrified or scared of what they have seen done or even witnessed. Slavery was taken to an extreme point that is now over in modern day society but when you look and see how bad it was and see yourself getting treated like that every day of your life just getting beaten upon and disrespected as if you were not even a human being or not even a person it ruined them. Mentally they couldn't control their emotions and it was just a horrible thing for them to go through. Some slaves might have even taken their own lifes for the matter of the fact all because the conditions of work were too hard and the masters mistreating the slaves. The psychological effect of beating them upon force created a mental block for them saying they'll never be good enough or they'll never be nothing. Then you have slaves like Douglas who are crazy brave and will stand up to any man behind a weapon or not he took beating upon beating from his