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The Progress that Made Things Worse
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Overveiw Part 1
Through out this timeline, the lives of negros like Anthony Johnson will be veiwed, as he and his genaration faced diminishing progress though out the many years that slave laws chained down the lives of Afican Americans. At one time, religon was a key factor in keeping or getting rid of your status in life as a slave. At one time slavery didn't even exsist, it was merely considered indentured servatude. -
Overveiw cont.
The Negro people were once treated as equally as white men, but as diminishing progress is followed, the dehumanization of Negros is rapidly tightening itself around them tighter and tighter until there's no way out. -
Anthony Johnson Buys Land
Most people today, they think of negros in colonial times as always being slaves, but that wasn't the case. At one time, negros could acquire land as they wished like Anthony. Negros weren't always dependent on Englishmen. Negros like Anthony could support their own family and sell what ever crops they wished. The fact itself that Anthony owned land, raised his status higher than some Englishmen. Of course, this is when nergos still had freedom of their own. -
Link For Anothy Johnson Buys Land
<a href='http://www.enotes.com/colonial-america-biographies/johnson-anthony' >( More details.) -
Anthony the Negreo Wins Court Case to Own Slaves Againt English Man Part 1
Anthony Johnson hoped to keep a negro by the name of John Casar as a slave. The court case was against an Englishman, this made things no harder for Anthony, for he won the case. This showed that skin color didn't change a person's freedom or rights during this time frame. A negro having a negro slave was a norm during 1654. A nergo and an Englishman both owning slaves and land were given the same status that anyone would receive. -
Anthony the Negreo Wins Court Case to Own Slaves Againt English Man cont.
If a negro could do all the things an Englishman could do, there was no reason for a negro to be kneeling in front of the feet of an Englishman for food and things that are needed in life. A negro at this timeframe was capable of doing everything and anything an Englishman was. <a href='http://slaverebellion.org/index.php?page=the-black-slave-owners' > ( 5th paragraph under "Anthony Johnson". ) -
Christians are Still Slaves Part 1
As the Overview states, a human's religon was a key factor in status in life. If a person was a slave, but was Christian, they knew they would never have to serve as a slave for life....that was until September 1667. People didn't know if a Christian baby born a slave would be free or not, so the Englishmen made it easy. They made a law that stated that it didn't matter what religon they were, they would serve as a slave for life. What were people like? -
Christians are Still Slaves cont.
They were greedy. Not getting rid of slaves meant less money being spent on new ones. What freedoms did a negro have if they were slaves for life? They had no hope, no life to look forward to other than slavery. Their families would have to look up to their masters, they were trapped. The Englishmen had full power over their slaves, for they would be their slaves forever. -
Link for Christians are Still Slaves
<a href='http://www.studythepast.com/vabeachcourse/bacons_rebellion/slavelawincolonialvirginiatimeline.pdf' >( 1st page, bullet 1667. ) -
Casual Killing of Slaves Part 3
Slaves had to work hard enough to please their masters, even if it meant working to death or to the point were they couldn't support their families. <a href='http://www.bowdoin.edu/~prael/projects/gsonnen/page3.html' > ( 3rd Paragraph.) -
Caual Killing of Slaves Part 1
Land owners once had to treat their slaves like they would anyone else. If a slave was killed, then the landowner would be brought to court as if they killed an Englishman. But in 1669, an act was passed that said the casual killing of slaves was allowed. Since the slaves were merely a piece the landowner's property, they wouldn't want to destroy their own things. The Englishmen wanted nothing more than to strike fear into the hearts of slaves. -
Caual Killing of Slaves Part 2
What were slaves to do about freedom with the feeling that one wrong step from the path of life would knock them off forever. The Englishmen considered slaves a piece of property, so that must mean that the slaves weren't humans...shouldn't it? What is a human's, who isn't considered a human, status in life? Did the Englishmen consider them to have the same status as a house, or even a pig? -
Torture for Living Part 1
Slaves were completely depedent on their masters, but what happened when their master didn't feed them? The slaves of the past had to get food somehow, so they ate and shared with the other slaves dying of hunger the pigs that they tended to. Of course the Englishmen didn't like that, it had to be stopped...but what way was worse than death? The Englishmen decided to punish their starving slaves by killing them but keeping them awake to feel it, in other words.....torture. -
Torture for Living Part 3
Apparenetly, the slaves didn't even get the choice to say they didn't do what they were accused of, all that needed to happen was for the landowner to say that stealing occurred, and the torture began. The slaves were treated like animals, they misbehaved and they are punshised. If torture wasn't enough, after the third accusation, the slaves were killed even if they truely didn't do anything. No real human should be treated that way. -
Torture for Living Part 2
The torture was easy for the Englishmen, the first time a hog was stolen, the slave would be whipped in the middle of town 39 times on his/her back (which could often lead to death). The second time, would be much worse. The slaves ears were nailed onto the pillory in the middle of town for two hours. Afterwards, their ears were cut off closest to the nail. Torture is not what humans do to others who were merely feeding themsleves and their family. What did the Englishmen think slaves were? -
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Ending Thoughts Part 3
Imagine your friends, maybe family, maybe even you in chains, working your frail body to death with the blistering sun above you, or the bitter wind nipping at your nose. They would be trapped forever; the only way around it would mean death or massive blood-shed. You would never have any say, "you" wouldn't even be you...for mere tools don't have names. Greed and the wanting of power are too strong in our world. -
Ending Thoughts Part 1
The slaves of the past suffered greatly. Initially Negros were treated as people, but the power and greed of the Englishmen overtook the people who had little power to start with. The chain of slavery tightened itself around the slaves one law at a time. If greed and the wanting of power were the only thing that caused slaves to suffer the way they did, then don't you think that it is possable for it to happen again? -
Ending Thoughts Part 2
What If laws were to get out of hand again? What if like during slavery so long ago, or in Germany during the Holocaust, or now in other parts of the world at this exact time, laws slowly over time, one by one, started to put control over a certain race or group of people? -
Ending Thoughts Part 4
How many times a day are your acts influenced by greed? It will turn us all against each other and destroy who knows how many innocent lives, unless..... <a href='http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr3.html' > (From a different perspective.) -
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