Why Is Slavery Wrong

Slavery Essay
To begin, there is no beginning. There is no way to fully describe the terror, monstrous injustice, the bloodshed, the brutalization, and the horrific oppression that dehumanized the enslaved African. The system of American chattel slavery was a sick, inhumane, and one of the most detrimental systems ever put in place. What it has done, how it felt, words can only do so much. What black people went through, and what they are still going through due to this system is so so important to look at. When you take away someone’s humanity, their whole entire being and reduce it to the pavement, the damage of the black race, of the people is so great. Slavery was and is wrong because the damage never truly dies, it truly never goes away.
To continue, slavery was a terrorizing, and dehumanizing system that effortlessly perpetuated white supremacy. Black people, their culture, their native tongue, their feelings, inalienable rights were stripped away from them by white hands. The system of slavery was embedded in black inferiority and systemic racism. There is no debate to if slavery was wrong. Slavery impacted/ impacts the whole country. Even if a black person was “free” they still were not free. They lived in a society that hated them, their skin, their hair, their whole existence. They lived under a government that counted them as less than human, less than worthy in all ways. Under a government that capitalized and completely profited off of black oppression. Slavery represented the following: Black separation, black rape, black assimilation, black labor, black brutalization, black humility, black blood, black tears, black pain, black terror, black mutilation, black unintelligence, and most of all
Many slave owners/white supremacists and other racist and empathy-lacking whites believed black people didn’t feel emotion or pain. They believed they were predatory animals that lacked self-control. This was their justification. They believed they were inferior and did not deserve love or family. They thought that they deserved to be treated like property. They also strongly supported black enslavement because it was a great way to sustain the economy. It was their God-given right to own slaves, their white terrorism was all in the name of the Lord. What I have to say to that is that recognizing the effects and brutal treatment of slaves is just part of being a decent human being. You have to lack real human qualities and empathy to have supported such beliefs. If you can’t/ couldn’t see how painful slavery was, I think looking at anything from being abruptly separated from family to being forced in extremely damaging and unhealthy conditions on a boat for months where black folk were literally stacked on top of each other, covered in each other's feces is/ was a good place to start. I mean honestly like black folk are humans just like white folk. They deserve/ deserved way better, to be treated like actually something that was real. Believing slavery was right is just so… I mean you have to be really dumb like literally. “Slavery was right” can be canceled out because of white assimilation of