Slavery

Hello again! See? That was much better than greetings…

How are you? Good? Well that’s great! I’m good, thanks for asking you kind human beingJ So here we are again. I’m writing on my lovely blog and you’re reading it. Isn’t it nice? Well, I think it is nice. I’m on this historical museum again. It is so nice and adventurous over here! Old history about the Native Americans, immigrants, arts and slavery. That’s what I’m going to talk about now. Slavery I mean. Isn’t it usual to talk about what you think about in a blog? As you’ve probably noticed, I talk a lot about my thoughts and words in this blog. What can I say? It makes me want to write even better than I would have done in a pure text about facts. Well, here it goes. My thoughts. (Moreover, just so you now, I’ll write about what slavery is later in this post). I have always thought that slavery was awful and terrible. I mean…It is pure torture! Grown up men walking around pretending to be much better than everyone else by yelling and punishing! It is terrible! In this post I’ll be talking about this. Not just because it is exciting with old history, but also because I need to get out a little frustration. So here we go.

I guess it all started a long, long time ago as usual. In North America. There were few people working at the huge plantations where they grew tobacco, which was very profitable at that time. However, they were lacking workers at the plantations. In addition, here is what went wrong. Their lacking of thinking. One would have thought that the workers would not have gone that far, but since they needed an economical solution, they were thinking too fast to react. That is when the slavery time started. Americans were starting to transport Africans from Africa over to America in huge boats over the Atlantic sea. (This happened in the early 1700’s). Africans that later would be slaves for the Americans. When the Africans reached America after a long trip and really bad conditions on the boats, they could be sold on the slavery market for a small price. Families were split up when one family member where going a different way than the other one.

Because the Americans didn’t care about some “stupid” families, did they? No. The slaves lived in big families with the workers, or managers, in small cottages, and they worked on these huge plantations with tobacco. They were often punished if they did something wrong, or if they didn’t work as well as the others. A good friend of the managers was the whip, and it was used a lot at that time. The women on the other hand were used as house workers, like cooks, cleaners and sex slaves. That means that the women had no choice but to obey their leader (which in their case was a man). The women often had to lay with him or do something against her will. As you can see now, slavery is to get people to work or get them do something against their will.
After a few years, the American Revolution starts and tobacco was no longer needed as much as before in America. In the end of the revolution, the prices were dropping. The slaves weren’t working as much as before, it was even not use for them some places. I swear! When I read this, I was so happy it was over…Well, that’s what I thought until I continued reading. This dickhead called Eli Whitney came up with cotton gin in 1793, and the slavery was profitable again, now working with cotton instead of tobacco. OMG! Why?!? Stupid, stupid…*nocking my head against my computer* Oh, I almost forgot an important thing! The slaves were now working in South-America instead of North America as they did before. They now saw north as a place where they could be free, and many slaves tried to escape through the Underground

The Underground Railroad

Railroad. This railroad went under the ground, from the south to the north. I remember my teacher saying that this was important. That’s probably why I remember it so good J…Moving on. There was a time when the white southerns was thinking of both economics and moral. Was it right to do this? “No! It is not right to do this! Get you’re thinking straight!” Then they thought that since the slaves got food, a place to sleep, clothes and a place to work, it was okay after all. “Arrg”.
It came a law in 1857 that said that the slaves couldn’t say anything. They couldn’t defend themselves, and they couldn’t make a stand for themselves. Then came the civil war in 1861 and it lasted until 1865. This civil war was a disagreement between south and north. Whether they should continue with slavery or not. During this time, the slaves had much time to figure out where to go. Many slaves escaped in the Underground Railroad to the north, where they could be free.Soon done now with this terrible thing called slavery…I can’t even pronounce the word slavery without making really weird noises with my mouthJ You should hear me

Abraham Lincoln

some time.  Who wore a black beard, had a big top hat and always had these wise words to say? Abraham Lincoln of course! He was actually smart enough to say that the slavery had to have an end finally too. He actually had some brain up in his head… (For those who do not know who Abraham Lincoln was, he was the president of the United States at that time). He said that slaves would end up forever free in 1862. It was written in the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, and on December 6^th in 1865 it was written down to the United States Constitution (13^th Amendment) that slavery was forever abolished. Done with the slavery. Down slavery, down! Sit! Bad slavery! Okay I’ll stop it with the dog thing.

That was all I had for this time guys! I hope you understood at least some of my writing this time, and hopefully you learned something too. This have become the ultimate phrase for my blog:
We writes next time!

Many hugs from Ingrid Kristine <3J

Sources:
My English book that I brought
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution