Women Enslavement

Women Enslavement

Introduction

It was slavery that had left the lives of a number of people under misery. A great many people have worked towards the abolishment of slavery understanding the fact that it had nothing to do but to humiliate the other person. Talking about the slavery, the blacks have a great depressing history involved with it, where they were kidnapped and enslaved and were not let out until they died. Women who were slaved were raped often and were kept in a condition where a person would not even think of keeping their animals.

Main Body

It was in the year 1830, when the slavery was at its peak in the south. The African Americans, who were kidnapped, were enslaved on small farms, large plantations, in cities and towns. Though slavery had such a wide variety of faces, the underlying concepts were always the same. Slaves were considered property, and they were property because they were black. Their status as property was enforced by violence actual or threatened. Enslaved African Americans can never forget what they have been through in the past and can never forget their title which was property. It wouldn't be right to say that every slave and master had a bad relationship. And not every master was a threat to the life of the slave; there were a few masters who did care for their slaves. When human beings live together, they form a bond with each other, and this happened to in a few cases of slaver. But the caring was tempered and limited by the power imbalance under which it grew. Within the narrow confines of slavery, human relationships ran the gamut from compassionate to contemptuous. But the masters and slaves never approached equality. The situation was even worse then any one can imagine today.

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