The Slavery Of Slavery And Slavery

Slaves were treated badly, like they were not human beings. Slaves were tired of being treated like dogs or worse (Brown & Holt, 2000). As of now as an individual, when we are tired of being mistreated as an individual we began to rebel. Just like the slaves got tired of being mistreated they began to resist or rebel against their slave owners, ran away from their slave owners and hid in the woods for a couple of days, or slacked up on their daily work to resist slavery (About Education, n.d.). Slaves faked being sick or tore up equipment so the slaves could not perform their work. Slaves killed their slave owners by poisoning them (About Education, n.d.). Slaves were also tired of being separated from their families by the slave owners.

Slaves did not want their children to grow up in slavery and become slaves like their parents. Female slaves found ways not to get pregnant so their children would not have to be born into slavery (About Education, n.d.). One mother tried to kill her children because she did not want her children to suffer like she had suffered in slavery (Brown & Holt, 2000). She injured three of her children and killed one, she tried to kill them so they did not have to be slaves but be free (Brown & Holt, 2000). Slave owners had taken everything from the slaves but the only person and thing that kept them going was God and their faith (About Education, n.d.).

Slaves were separated from their families when they were sold off by their slave owners. Some slaves’ wives were separated from their husband and the slave owner forced the wives to marry again so they could bore more children into slavery (Brown & Holt, 2000). Slaves kept their kinship networks intact through church, where slaves were married and slave...

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...uthority, slaves turned to their make believe folk beliefs. In a world which slaves were forced to live in, slaves turned to their tales to get them through the hard times (Brown & Holt, 2000). Through the slave animal tales, slaves shared their inner emotions and wanted to be treated equal in the world (Brown & Holt, 2000).

To cope with powerlessness slaves relied upon singing songs and their religion. The slaves had to look to and believe in something other than what they were going through. The slaves prayed to God to deliver them from their evil slave owners (Gartrell, n.d.). The slaves also wrote poems (Brown & Holt, 2000). The slaves used lyrics as a form to capture their experience in a thought. The slaves’ songs were a form of humor for those who would listen to the songs. Some of the songs were made of fiction and were taught to keep the slaves’ spirits up.