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Growing Up Black During Slavery Essay

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Many years ago a significant amount of black people died being a slave and many also struggled till freedom. Blacks battled for countless of years being seen as nothing. Being a slave means not having a voice, having no freedom and being seen as just property.
When someone is a slave they have no input into anything. For example, in the excerpt from Twelve Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup it exposed us when the master of Solomon would continuously beat him to shut him up. In the excerpt it said “… he stopped (beating him) and asked if I still insisted I was a free man” if he had stopped saying he was a free man right from the start then the master would have quit abusing him and that would have showed us how they have to say what the master wants to hear them say. Growing up black during this time and being forced into slavery had hinted to people that this action was completely wrong. Many argue and stated that we should not talk about this situation that it has been years ago that it was a miserable part of history, but I believe that we should still speak out for …show more content…

People that have this mindset don’t understand that anything a slave does that is out of the order of the master can cause them their life. A slave wont dare to leave the plantation if they do they would hunt them down and punish them hard or kill them. It’s very difficult to be a slave, there is no way out unless if you were an actual freeman or women. The reason you could have a chance is because if the mayor of the city finds out that you became a slave they would go get you and free you, but other than that it’s very difficult to leave and become free. When the mayor comes and gets their citizen it will not be a difficult thing, they can just go where their citizen is and take them back. The master of the then slave would not be able to do anything about it, but get

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