January, 2002

Slavery
by Nicc

I'm going to tell you about slavery. There are three main things I want to tell you. They are how they were captured, how they were treated, and what they were used for.

One way they were captured was by force. The force that they were captured by was guns. Guns were one of the ways the Africans were captured. The Africans would be shot down. Another way was rope. They would tie the Africans up. The last was by manpower. They would jump on the Africans and wrestle them to the ground.

When the Africans were captured they weren't treated very well. When they were on the ships they had to run in place for physical activity. They were stark naked. They were also not feeding them very well.

When they were sold they were used as workers on plantations. The were sold for somethimes $900. When they lived on the plantations they didn't have very good homes.

Would you want to be a slave? Would you have liked to be captured, treated like them and used like them?

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