Summary: The Cruelty Of Slavery

What is slavery? According to Dictionary.com it is the process in which “a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bondservant”. Slavery is very unheard of in this millennium era for as it first occurred in 1619 when the first African Americans were brought over to North American colony of Jamestown and ended in 1865 when the thirteenth amendment was ratified and abolished slavery. For many of the persons in this new generation not a lot of reflection is focused on slavery and its cruelty. It is up to the few who are given the opportunity to share the truth of the violence and exploitation of slavery and the harm it caused not only to the newly founded country but specifically the South. Slavery was a chain of unjustifiable
Often times were beaten and given cruel punishment for very harmless mistakes, they were also malnourished, overworked, not treated equally even though the rhetoric “all men are created equal” was used did the revolution it did not apply to slaves, to top off all of that female slaves were often sexually harassed and raped. There is a drastic difference between the life of the slave owner and the slave.

Now that the picture has been painted of what times were like many would assume well life seems to be great for the elite whites and dreadful for the slaves but little did anyone ever think to consider how slavery could possibly be bad for the South? In the book Incidents in a Life of a Slave Girl the main character Linda talks about her life from the very young age of 6 till she is a grown women. The book gives us a clear view of what it would be like to be a young girl growing up as a slave. One of the biggest things I was able to better understand from the book was truly how cruel slaves were treated numerous times the author Harriet Jacobs used details