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Reading From The Slave Narratives
The “Reading from the Slave Narratives” video I thought it was really interesting and sad at the same time. It had shown me that slaves are the most strong human being that has very lived. They had been treated like an animals, but they managed to survive and live to tell their story. The white master did everything they can to to make slaves lives a living hell. Due to the fact that they are slaves, they cannot fight back or they will be punished more. The only thing slaves can do during the time is accepted the punishment is move on with their life. I didn’t know that slave had arrange marriage from the master to breed the strongest baby. It was surprising that the master sexually abuse their slaves just to humiliate the husband. They not

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