Chapter 7 focuses on the topic of Slave Codes. It explains why the Slave Code was created and illustrates the restrictions that African slaves had to face when the Slave Code was practically a part of a law in some states. The book basically sums up the summary of what Slave Code is; it’s a restriction that is kept among the African slaves to prove that slave owners will always have power of any slaves. One thing about Slave Code is that it’s not actually a law, rather, it’s an enforcement that all African slaves need to participate in. Not only does it eliminate any freedom that African slaves seek, it takes away their humanities. These African slaves have the same features, eyes, nose, mouth, body, and so forth, that slave owners also have.…show more content… So why are these white individuals treating these African slaves even worse than how they were treated when they were in England? This questions the idea of the United States. Previous chapter talked about the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence where nations reunited as one to become a “United” states. How can they call themselves United States when these white individuals cannot even call African slaves, that lives in the United States, as Americans? How is it fair that African slaves are treated as nothing but a property and in addition, they have a code they need to obey and follow to show that white individuals overpowers them? The moment they created the Slave Code, Americans had made a big contradicting mistake. Americans’ idea of Slave Code was to prove that they have power. How is that different from what the England had treated these individuals? If Americans moved to United States to seek freedom and runaway from the England’s treatment, shouldn’t the Americans know better to not act exactly the same as England? I believe that America’s reason to create this code was to prevent Africans from fighting against the white