Eulogy About Slavery

I would teach about slavery, and how I would decide what to teach them is based on the things I’m interested in. As a black female even though I didn’t go through slavery, it’s unfortunate to read articles on what happened to slaves back in the day and what they had to go through. When the Europeans occupied the North American continent the land was huge, the work to be done there was hard and there was scarcity of people to work in the land. In the seventeenth century, a Dutch ship, which was loaded with African slaves, was a solution and also a problem to North America. Slaves were mostly needed on enormous farms where a lot of cash crops namely tobacco, could actually be grown. When the American resolution ended, slavery became unsuccessful
He took advantage of the war that was going on and he ran away from Mississippi plantation into union lines. An assistant surgeon took a photograph of Gordon and he made sure he circulated the picture as evidence of the cruelty and brutality of slaveholders. The image appeared in a popular magazine called the harpers weekly magazine. In Gordon exposing himself and allowing a picture of him to be taken he was promoting the cause of emancipation. During the civil war, there was a slave who ran away and published a book, which spoke about the terrors that slaves went through and he also talked about slave culture. One thing about slaves is that they held their own prayer meetings and they also transformed a slaveholding religion, which was a religion with the aim to defend and justify the institution into a religion that stressed redemption and deliverance. Slaves accepted the story of exodus that told the story of the deliverance of people from slavery to
One of the slaves remembered when his mother always travelled twelve miles at night after having a long day in the fields, just to lie down by him. In slavery any family was helpless, brothers and husbands stood by while their sisters and wives where sexually assaulted by their slave owners. Slaves owners made sure that they separated family members from each other by selling them to other parts of the south. All these awful things continued happening to slaves until one day, Thomas Jefferson’s grandson Randolph, came up with an idea to free slaves born after a certain age and asked for the removal of all blacks from state, unfortunately the plan to abolish slavery was defeated in Virginia. In Kansas a territory north of the line, which was created by the Missouri compromise, shed blood and warfare over the status of the nations soil, slave or free, began. During the civil war some slaves took advantage of that and those who could manage to make it out, rode to liberty as a