What Was The Impact Of Slavery On African Americans

Slavery was practiced in the south beginning in the 1600s and ending in the 1800s. Southerners were always in favor of having slaves due to the free and intensive labor the African Americans were having to endure that white southerners were able to get out of. The economy of the south heavily depended on slaves for agricultural and economically purposes. Buy and selling slaves also went into the economics of slavery which then tore families apart. The emotional and physical damage of slaves was endless which created many negative impacts of African American families forced into slavery. Slavery is what raked in money for southerners while simultaneously and put African Americans through constant pain.
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The work and conditions they had to live under made family life difficult and at times tragic. Many slave families ended up being separated at auctions or through migrations. Slaves would attempt to stay together, especially with their young, but often would be sent to work on different plantations. At auctions, a mother may have been sent onto a podium with her child and her child would be sold to another location right in front of her. Auction attendees did not look at the morality of the slaves’ plights, but rather what profit can be make off of a younger and more lively slave (Crandall, 2008). Plantation women also found life to be especially hard for many reasons. Slave women took on heavy amounts of work regardless of where they were stationed for their duties. They would be forced into raising children of the masters which brought on irreconcilable emotions of no longer having their own child. Many slave women also documented how lonely they were after having to say goodbye to loving friend and family relationships, “I am sad tonight, sickness preys on my frame,” (Boyer, 2014). Female slaves also fell victim to sexual advances from plantation owners. They had to comply with their master’s orders regardless of how shameful it may be. Many of these women would then bare the children that resulted from the forceful sexual nature and situations that may happen on the plantation. Those plantation women would then live in fear once the master or overseer’s wife was notified of the child (NHCRT, 2010). Women, men, and children forced into lives of slavery had to endure many devastating situations and times of hardship throughout their