Evils+of+Slavery

Evil of Slavery

Slavery is the biggest sin in America’s history. There were many torture, murders and separations of families. Plus there were many injustices slaves went through back then. Slavery destroyed many African families by separation.

Masters and overseers tortured slaves back then in a cruel way. There were two worst method masters use to torture innocent and disobedient slaves. The master would whip their slave harshly like Mr. Severe and captain Anthony did. Other masters would kill their slaves for refusing to obey orders or for no reason like Mr. Gore, Ms. Hick, Mr. Thomas Lanman and Mr. Beal Bondly. Mr. Severe the “profane swearer and overseer” cursed constantly and took great pleasure in whipping his slaves. Douglass’s Aunt Hester, a slave of Captain Anthony disobeyed his orders and got severely whipped. Mr. gore was the first rate overseer who served colonel Lloyd. He was a proud, ambitious cruel man. He sticks by his words when it comes to killing or whipping his own slave. He whipped one of colonel Lloyd’s slaves named Demby. Demby managed to escape his whipping and plunged into the lake refusing to come out. Mr. Gore gave him three calls to come out of the lake but when he refused the third time he shot him. This proves that Mr. Gore stuck to his words with cruelty.

The separation of slave families was heart breaking back then. There were some young, slave children that didn’t know who their mom and dad were. When their masters died their slaves got sent for inspection so that they could be given to the next generation of family members such as son, daughter, niece or nephew. Slaves weren’t classified as human beings. Instead they were thought of or called “it”. Fredrick Douglass didn’t know whom his father were when he was young, however he assumed that his father was his master. He never saw his mother very often. She died when he was seven years old. When Captain Anthony died Fredrick Douglass was sent back to Baltimore for inspection so he could be given to Andrew or Lucretia.

Injustices are another evil part of slavery. There were many masters that were cruel to slave. However they were masters that were ruthless too like Mr. Gore, Mr. Thomas Lanman, and Mr. Beal Bondly and Mrs. Hick. Mr. Gore Murder Colonel Lloyds slave Demby for refusing to come out of the water after three calls. He wasn’t charged for killing Colonel Lloyds slave. Mr. Thomas killed two of his slave with his hatchet. Ms. Hick murder Fredrick’s cousin for dropping her baby. The slave girl was around fifteen or sixteen had a broken nose and breastbone. Mr. Bondly killed an old slave of Colonel Lloyd for fishing on his property.

Masters have their own reasons for being cruel to slaves. The religious act was what influence them to get mean meaner to slaves. Like Master Thomas Auld read the bible and the bible said something about having slaves. When Douglass got tired and lost his strength from working in the heat Mr. Covey brutally beaten him till he could stand up to work again.

These are the reason why slavery was evil bad then and why it was the biggest sin in American history. In my opinion slavery should never had existed in the first place because these poor African would never have to go through all those cruel sufferings.

your truely Stephen john