"Slave Resistance"

The cases of slave resistance presented in this essay are shocking, not because resistance existed, but because after so many attempts, it still took 450 years to bring about reform. Slave brutality was cruel and demeaning both in the physical and psychological senses, it is inhumane to think for a second that stealing someone from their native land, coercing them to work under unruly conditions, and beating them into submission is right. And this is what makes the situation sad, the fact that a human being saw fit to viciously undermine and blatantly kill, control, and subdue masses of other human beings. Not to mention justify their actions, and get mad when a slave tried to escape this treacherous persecution. Deeming it "hellish" as if what they were doing was apart of a divine plan. Another thing that caught my attention in this essay was the fear that the whites possessed when the slaves revolted, if the whites were so concerned with their lives, it was dumb for them to keep these people living under their noses. But the greed and sick satisfaction that they received from slavery was the driving force that gave them hope that their slaves wouldn't come up against them. I did read however, that the white slaveholders that ran the southern states were the "Negroes" of developing Europe in the twelfth thru fifteenth centuries. Supposedly, they took the harsh accounts they experienced and the psychological and psychosocial effects were the platform for how they treated their slaves. Which is still not excuse for slavery because 450 years of it, and even now seems to not have given them or their children enough time to get racism out of their systems. In closing, the essay was moving because no matter how many times I hear about slavery and its barbaric structure, I get upset all over again, simply because I couldn't imagine a human being being done the way slaves were treated.