Slavery In The 1700s Essay

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Slavery had a huge impact on society during the 1700s. It spread like wild fire in the forest across the world around the 1800s, and had a very controversial impact not only on black history, but the world’s history. Let’s imagine that you a black male or female that’s living in the 1700s. You are basically a piece of property to someone, and the owner own you. Slavery hasn’t been abolished yet, and you have to do whatever your master commands you to do. Basically, you are a locked caged animal used for entertainment or labor. Anyway, slavery was abolished later on in 1865. After that, African Americans were free, but were they really free? In today’s world, majority of black males with not very high levels of education are facing years of…show more content…
Having something inherited to you means to receive something as the heir of the previous owner right after that previous owners death. In the modern world, mass incarceration of black males with low education level is becoming an inheritance trait to many black children. This is becoming a huge problem in society. They might as well just force the children of parents who were locked up to take their parents place after a certain amount of time because that’s what’s going on. The children of parents that are in prison feel as if they have no choice but to live the same life as what their parents show them. They initially become what they use to see, and if they are used to seeing their parents in jail, there goal will to follow in their parents footsteps. Let’s imagine there are one hundred black people in a long line one after the other. Each one goes in the line on after another towards a skyscraper that each one is going to jump off of. Let’s say your number seventy five, and you have seen one though seventy-four people jump off that skyscraper. You decide that you don’t want to follow in their footsteps and die, so you don’t jump off. After the others see you move, they decide to follow by. In this world, we live be example meaning we do what we see others do. If we stop following what the world makes us out to be, and lead others to achieve a different goal that society doesn’t believe we can do, we can lead others away from
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