America's Dirty Secret: Slavery
| | | REGINALD JONES | 9/30/2010 |
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America can never hide its dirty secret, but they will toil continuously to conceal this. Slavery is indeed the most atrocious act in American history. Just stating the facts is horrible, and this so dearly infuriates me to say this, but humans was brutally forced into armadas and compelled to capitulate what little rights of life they actually had. Families were interspersed, religion was lost, native glots were cut, and most importantly their identity was deleted. By the same token, how does one rebound from something like this enslavement? Unfortunately, there was no rebound; Therefore, Negros’ cultural instability was unspontanious. That is, they were breed intentionally to be unstable as a race and culture in America. But how can one develop a culture under direct imprisonment? Under enforced custody, these people were subjected to the worst treatment imaginable. For instance, they were ordered to work, night and day without compensation. Again, families were constantly split up and auctioned away like cars, they were fed garbage; literally. Women men and children were raped mercilessly, changing the pureness of their race. Above all, the act of slavery is chief in Negros cultural instability because of the extinction of native customs, and inhumane treatment during slavery. Furthermore, Negros did not have the correct utilities to formulate a true cultural society within America. Ultimately, after many decades, slavery ended. But a new problem obstructed Negros’ visions. The fact that they were independent meant they needed to survive. Courageously, two of the most talented Negros thus far, Booker T Washington and W.E.B DuBois, roused to this challenge by offering their unprecedented intangible philosophies. Although Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois had opposing philosophies about social equality, I feel they both were of significance in regards to reconstruction and advancement of post slavery
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America can never hide its dirty secret, but they will toil continuously to conceal this. Slavery is indeed the most atrocious act in American history. Just stating the facts is horrible, and this so dearly infuriates me to say this, but humans was brutally forced into armadas and compelled to capitulate what little rights of life they actually had. Families were interspersed, religion was lost, native glots were cut, and most importantly their identity was deleted. By the same token, how does one rebound from something like this enslavement? Unfortunately, there was no rebound; Therefore, Negros’ cultural instability was unspontanious. That is, they were breed intentionally to be unstable as a race and culture in America. But how can one develop a culture under direct imprisonment? Under enforced custody, these people were subjected to the worst treatment imaginable. For instance, they were ordered to work, night and day without compensation. Again, families were constantly split up and auctioned away like cars, they were fed garbage; literally. Women men and children were raped mercilessly, changing the pureness of their race. Above all, the act of slavery is chief in Negros cultural instability because of the extinction of native customs, and inhumane treatment during slavery. Furthermore, Negros did not have the correct utilities to formulate a true cultural society within America. Ultimately, after many decades, slavery ended. But a new problem obstructed Negros’ visions. The fact that they were independent meant they needed to survive. Courageously, two of the most talented Negros thus far, Booker T Washington and W.E.B DuBois, roused to this challenge by offering their unprecedented intangible philosophies. Although Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois had opposing philosophies about social equality, I feel they both were of significance in regards to reconstruction and advancement of post slavery
Cited: Gates, Henry, ed. The Norton Anthology of African American Literture. NewYork: W.W Norton & Company, 2004.