The Chains of Slavery essays

The Chains of Slavery essays Slavery... a societal institution based on ownership, dominance and exploitation of one human being by another. The owners may exact work or other services without payment and can deny the slaves freedom in activity and mobility. Therefore, they are regarded as an article of property and can be sold or given away. Slavery appears almost universally throughout the history: Slavery in the Ancient World, Slavery in the Middle Ages and Slavery in the New World. The most well-known slavery case in the New World is the case of the Blacks or the Africans (now the Afro-Americans) which is vividly portrayed in the film La Amistad. Slavery is a curse which can be compared into chains; Chains that forcefully hold and limit the freedom of the Africans to grow as individuals; choose what they have to do and what they want, and claim for their own rights. It is very disgusting seeing white men enslaved the Africans in their own land. For an instance, they will command the Africans to serve and work for them without having any privileges and if they do not follow their whims and caprices, they will be tortured or killed. The white men are not even satisfied, so, they trade and sell (in order for them to earn a lot of money) healthy Africans to other countries in Europe and America to be a worker or slave. Slave Market then happens. It is explicitly shown in the film that they have Big Slave Fortress where they keep all the captured Africans then brought into the ships for delivery. In addition, it is also sad and very disappointing knowing and seeing that some Africans are helping the whites to capture and ensla ve other Africans like what happened to Cinque who is seized on the road nabbed by four Black men who secured him by tying one hand to his neck and led him to a neighboring village. Then he is brought to a Slave Fortress then to the Tecora ( first slave ship) then to La Amistad (final slave ship). ...