Here are the thoughts I jotted down during class in response to listening to Ben read passages from "Interesting Narrative" by Olaudah Equiano and seeing drawings of the horrible conditions on slave ships. ...
"There is no doubt about it that the cruelties suffered by these slaves were totally unacceptable. I can't even wrap my mind around how anyone could possibly treat another living thing that way. Heck, I wouldn't even treat a plant that way! No one deserves that. Although slavery is wrong, even if they did get slaves because they were being sold to them and they were valuable or whatever, they could've treated the slaves semi-humanely. I mean, especially if they wanted more and more slaves, then why would they put them in conditions where 15-20% of them died before even coming to America? The slaves had a lot of reasons to loathe the people who were treating them this way. They must of thought the white people who treated them this way were demons or such things, and they had reason to.
One thing I am curious about this, is, did slaves ever jump over-board into the water to kill themselves? I definitely would've...at least the water is clean..."
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