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Atlantic Slave Trade

I felt very frustrated when we began talking about the Atlantic Slave Trade. I believe that the colonizers had no right to force the African Americans to work for the Europeans without paying them. 

They took advantage of the African Americans human rights and dehumanized them in doing so. It is sad to see that that portion of society was so oppressed, and that same oppression is still slightly present in daily life today. 

Europeans were the ones that forced people into confined spaces and failed to keep them fed and healthy. Instead they starved them and kept them below deck to sit among the rats with no space to move as they sat shoulder to shoulder with another individual at both side of them. This mistreatment, however, seems to have been forgotten in present day. Instead, our new president has made it his job to talk down about minority groups (in which African Americans are a part of) and make those groups look like criminals. 

I think the most shocking fact of the matter is that Northern America only had 2% of African American slaves. Slavery is so heavily taught in history classes, so it so crazy to think that slavery was a way smaller portion here then it was anywhere else. 

I have grasped a deeper understanding of what slavery really was like in Northern America. 

PS: This post is late because my computer crashed and I just got it back today. 

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