Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Equiano accounts

The Inhuman treatment that was put on the slaves was of foul nature.
I noticed that maybe the Englanders weren’t use to other people who were different then they were. For example the English are fancy well brought up people, and the African people were just low no nothing dogs (At least to the English). So for them to see this group of people the way they were was unnatural, and the only way to deal with unintelligent people like the Africans is to force productivity. They used them the way they saw them; the English were superior, knowledgeable, and wealthy people. They needed someone to pick up the slack to do their dirty work. The treatment of these blacks was embarrassing, and wrong. In the reading about Equiano accounts he described how sick it was to be around all of his people and to see them so broken. How the English packed as many African people in one ship and how they were literally sleeping on top of each other. How the smell was so bad it could make you not want to eat for days. All of these things point to a nature that shouldn’t be used but it was. To hear about a man who had to go through, and witness that low point in our history is dishearten and sad.

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