The And Harsh Treatment Of Slaves

The abuse and harsh treatment that slaves received from their masters, was left hidden. Due to that slaves didn’t have any legal rights to protect them and no voice that could be taken seriously. They could not go and complain to court and build a trial, to receive justice. They had no protection at all, but only the protection the slave community gave to each other. They acquired skills “needed to protect themselves and their loved ones from a brutal slave system” (Hine 159). Through, folktales the slave learned skills which were “watch what they said to white people, not to talk back, to withhold information about other African Americans, and to dissemble” (Hine 159). In doing this the African slave protected himself and gave the master less problem and opportunity to punish him.

Slaves viewed religion as a way out of the slavery they were in. This was a way of coping with slavery and the treatment they were receiving. Since, religion was the only place where they were not seen as slaves, but as human beings. Though, sometimes “masters denied their slaves access to Christianity” (Hine 159). Slaves saw other ways of involving themselves with religion. The religions that were more practiced by slaves were the Baptist and Methodist religion. These religions congregations “had racially segregated seating, but black and white people joined in communion and church discipline” (Hine 159). There were, also plantation churches that were sponsored by the master were they were preached to obey their masters. Slaves did not like this and instead “preferred a semisecret black church they conducted themselves under the leadership of “(Hine 160) a black preacher. Here they practiced their beliefs and performed their services with “singin...

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...y he had over his slaves.

Slavery in the 19th century was composed of the Atlantic Slave Trade and chattel slavery and how it built the way slavery was seen in the Americas. Enforcing the thought that African slavery was the most beneficial and profitable way of growing the economy in the Americas. Africans slaves suffered through many things while arriving into the Americas and living in this country. They saw a way of living that was wrong to their eyes and mind. They were used to the profit of others and denied what was theirs already which was freedom and equality. The racism and discrimination they suffered due to their color of skin was unexplainable. And the many problems the Americans made were treating them the way they did and seeing them as something different to them. Viewing them as property and not as human beings and denying them their rights.