Blog Four 01/28

Slavery... A very sensitive thing that many people have many different opinions on. Some believe it happened, others think it's all made up. Something that happened just a few generations before, yet people act like it was hundreds and hundreds of years ago. The concept on slave trade is unbelievable. How people would just want to sell off other individuals or trade them for other things and such. I remember first learning about the Middle Passage in my English class senior year of high school, we touched upon it for a bout a day or so because of a book we were reading. To me it's crazy how people were really putting people in that position to just have a million die JUST from transportation is crazy. All the things they were doing to them like, the forced labor, the branding, beating them, and as well as tearing apart these families is shocking. Simply all because skin color and the idea of having control of others. I really don't get what people enjoyed about torturing others... Like to me it's like, why would they want to make families suffer? why would they want to beat them so bad, that they wish they were dead? Why are they okay with the raping and all acting like it's no big deal? It amazes me how many people also took part in these acts as well. I just grew up in a family/ area where we are trying to grow and improve on these kinds of things. There are indeed some bumps here and there, but i know it is way worse in other places.

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