Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Throughout history Slavery has been one of the most unmoral act that human has ever did, its mentally and physically destroyed slaves lives, many slaves after gaining they freedom wrote books to describe the most horrible feeling they experienced as slave. I believe that fear of death and the sorrow of losing your close one are the most important emotional knowledge communicated by slaves. Slaves had this envy of escaping from their master when they missed they dear ones and this feeling of being free again, but were scared of being killed if captured or by other animals not knowing they way back home. Witch was always an emotion of hopelessness for them knowing that they fated to die as slave.



The fear of death was one the most disappointing feeling that slaves had toward themselves. Because it was that fear that keeps them thinking that they would never be able to get out of their situation. As describe in the interesting  life by Oloudah Equiano “I learned from them, that any attempt to return home would be hopeless…When I heard this I was seized with a violent panic, and abandoned myself to despair night too began to approach, and aggravated all my fears .” This shows how disappointed he was knowing that he died if he decides to run away from his horrible situation. Equiano had this feeling that he had lost any hope any hope of being free again because of his fear of death. Witch was the main thing slaves master want from their slaves to fear that they would be killed if they disobey them.



                 The most stimulating thing that were pushing slave to scape was the animosity of their master and mostly the sad feeling they had of living away from their close one, which they had been separated with to be sold. In the interesting life Equiano “I had before entertained hopes of getting home and had determined when it should be dark to make the attempt” this describe how the fact of being separated from his family was  

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