Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl

In August of 1619, the most terrible timespan for blacks in America commenced. The process of acquiring enslaved people from Africa was a part of the Triangular Trade. Triangular Trade is the trade between the United States, England, and Africa. The United States gave raw materials to England, England created manufactured goods and gave them to Africa, and in return, Africa traded their inhabitants to the Americans. The people sent to the Americans were criminals or people captured in battle. The people sent over underwent the most grueling times of their life. American slavery is undoubtedly immoral due to the justifications and the sheer lack of rights, power, social class, freedom, and much more.

The enslavers stated many justifications

Everything was taken away from them and many during that time felt that this was justifiable, they felt like it was moral. American slavery is the complete opposite of moral ideas due to the enslaved people's stolen rights, power, social class, and freedom. An example of this absurdity is in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl when it described the limitations of an enslaved person's freedom by writing that a 15-year-old girl, Harriot Jacobs “began resisting the sexual advances of her master, Dr. Flint. Even when Jacobs had two children with another man, Flint pursued her”. Even 7 years later Dr. Flint pursued her. This shows Jacobs’ immense lack of freedom and stolen rights because she was unable to become free from the attic as Dr. Flint was still doing one’s utmost to find Jacobs. He even attempted to bribe her children while Jacobs herself was cramped in a claustrophobia-inducing attic (Jacobs). Jacobs had no freedom from Dr. Flint and she had no power against him because of the racial difference and social class/status. Another article about the same topic simplified an example of the wealthy whites' effort to make blacks have little to no rights. Due to the high population of enslaved people in Virginia, “Virginia passed a law that said that masters had to give white servants some money and corn when their term of service ended”. Because of this law poor whites would be “less unhappy with their place in society” leading to the servants being “less likely to side with the black slaves against the white masters”. This greatly demonstrates the enslaved people's lack of social class and respect because the rich whites were doing as much as they could to keep the white social class higher than the blacks so slavery could last longer and fewer people would be against slavery if the poor whites were kept happy (Zinn 32). The law passed brought the enslaved people to be outcasted because there was no class equivalent to