The Truth Behind Slavery

1. The Truth Behind Slavery Alexandria Conforti, Adrianna Villalobos, & Jessica Bender

2. What is Slavery? • Slavery is the violation of the right to live freely, the mistreatment of fellow human beings, and owning people as one’s own property.

3. Mistreatment

4. Violation • “…after rolling up his sleeves, he commenced to lay on the heavy cowskin, and soon the warm, red blood (amid heartrending shrieks from her, and horrid oaths from him) came dripping to the floor” (Douglas 6).

5. Property

6. Ramifications for Slaves • Separated from families • Didn’t know date of birth • Mistreatment from white people, even to mulattos • Sold and bought • Branded

7. Quotes from Huckleberry Finn • “I knowed very well I had done wrong, and I see it warn’t no use for me to try to learn to do it right; a body that don’t get started right when he’s little, ain’t got no show- when the pinch comes there ain’t nothing to back him up and keep him to his work, and so he gets beat” (Twain 127).

8. Quotes From Huckleberry Finn • “Well, you see, it ‘uzdis way. Ole Missus- dat’s Miss Watson-she pecks on me all the time, en treats me pooty rough, but she awluz said she wouldn’ sell me down to Orleans. But I noticed deywuz a nigger trader roun’ de place considable, lately, en I begin to gitoneasy” (Twain 53).

9. Ramifications for Slaveholders • Strong emotions toward slaves (good or bad) • Having to deal with the justification of slavery • Have to deal with consequences of relations with slaves (such as mulatto children)

10. Quote from Huckleberry Finn • “I see it warn’t no use wasting words- you can’t learn a nigger to argue. So I quit” (Twain 98).

11. Quote from Huckleberry Finn • “It was fifteen minutes before I could humble myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger- but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither” (Twain 105).

12. Racial Profiling • Those profiled the most • Hispanics • African Americans • Those of Jewish decent • Indians (India)

13. Examples of Racial Profiling • A study conducted in Arizona shows that African Americans and Hispanics are more likely to be pulled over by the police than Whites. • A group of black teenagers are pulled over because of the kind of car they are driving. • Any person of color stopped for minor traffic violations and then questioned about where they are going, or if they have illegal drugs or weapons in their possession.

14. Staples’ Experience • “…I was 22 years old, a graduate student newly arrived at the University of Chicago…it was clear that she thought herself a quarry of a mugger, a rapist, or worse” (Staples 205).

15. Racial Profiling in America • 1642: The Trials of John Elkin • A man confessed to the murder of an American Indian leader but other colonists refused to punish a white man for killing an American Indian • Later found guilty, but his punishment was not bad • 1704: To Catch a Slave • The South Carolina slave patrols goal was to find and capture fugitive slaves. • They sometimes arrested free African Americans as "fugitive slaves"

16. Racial Profiling in America con. • 1831: The Other Nat Turner Massacre • Following Nat Turner's rebellion 250 black slaves were rounded up and killed • 1944: Racial Profiling Receives the Supreme Court's Endorsement • U.S. Supreme Court held that ethnic profiling is not unconstitutional and may be practiced in times of national emergency. • Defended the involuntary internment of an estimated 110,000 Japanese Americans on the reason that they were Japanese during World War II

17. Racial Profiling in America con. • 2001: War and Terror • After, September 11th, the Bush administration rounded up an unknown number of Middle Eastern women and men on suspicion of being associated with terrorist groups. • They were either deported, released and some imprisoned

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