Describe, in your own words, the slavery of the black people in the

Describe, in your own words, the slavery of the black people in the U.S.A.

Describe briefly the condition of the black women when their husbands were away from them to work on the plantations of the white landlords.

The slavery system was abolished in the U.S.A. by the Emancipation Proclamation. Discuss it.

Explain share-cropping in your own words.

What were the two main objections of the writer about the treatment of the black slaves? Explain briefly in your own words.

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The slavery of the black people in the U.S.A.

The black people in the U.S.A. were called by the name of Negro and they were treated as slaves for the last 300 years. During that period they had no rights to get any kind of respect as well as to get happiness in their own manner. They had no time to think of their own progress or any kind of freedom. They were compelled to work hard in the fields after getting orders from their landlords, the white bosses commended them to get more and more work from them. They lived under constant fear so they could not leave there to displease their white masters. On the other hand they used to treat them as their property as they could buy and sell them at their pleasure when the black people thought of their progress, they looked at the faces of the white men to know about their reaction which was always negative.

The condition of the black women in the absence of their husbands

It should be noted that the black labourers were not permitted to live the life as they liked. They were sold from one plantation to another plantation to work as daily labourers in the fields when their women were kept away from them by the white landlords at their houses to serve them and do all kinds of menial work. They also had their sexual contact with them when they felt any such desire. They always thought that the black men and women were born to serve the white people who were their natural masters.

The writer further says that they were very poor having nothing as their own. In short, they have no property, no land and no money. They were compelled to live in poor wooden huts without any security and they were made of red clay. They had to family life because they were not permitted to keep their wives with them. Under such conditions they could mate with any slave girls whom they chanced to meet by chance and then they did not care for any morality.

The slavery system was abolished in the U.S.A. by the Emancipation Proclamation

The slavery system continued in the U.S.A. upto January 1, 1863 when it was finally abolished and the Negroes were declared free from the bondage of their white masters. The slavery was abolished under the Emancipation Proclamation which had given freedom to the Negroes. It is true that their such freedom did not make any difference to their miserable condition. The only freedom was that they could move from once place to another place as they liked. Many of them wandered from one place to another only for joy related to their freedom. Many of them also moved to the cities from their fields because they were attracted by cash paying jobs which helped them to maintain their families when they worked to develop their family, their women made use of their wisdom which they had got at the houses of the white landlords during the absence of their husbands. It was their condition during some freedom after the declaration of the Emancipation. The women then enjoyed their stay at the houses of the white landlords to get some good manners.

The system of share-cropping

It is necessary to mention that the women of black slaves continued to serve in the houses of the white masters and then they had learnt some good manners. The free blacks were contented with their low income jobs because they could not become the owners of any industry. Those blacks who did not go to cities began to work as share-croppers to develop a crop on that land which was not their own. They used to pay a rent for the agricultural produce, it was a new kind of bondage called share-cropping. Though they had got freedom yet they turned against the same landlords who had kept them slaves in the beginning. The landlords permitted them to grow crop in their fields. In this way the system of share cropping came into being. The black labourers admitted it because they wanted to keep their wives and children together as their family members. It was in the year 1890 when the white predicted that the black people would die of competition but the blacks managed to survive even on the basis of their low income jobs. They also began to work as store keepers, barbers, etc. to maintain their families.

The writer’s two main objections

Though the black slaves were treated in a cruel manner, yet the writer described their condition with two main objections about the cruel treatment in the U.S.A. His first objection was that the black people were not permitted to keep their family with them. They were separated from their wives in a cruel manner. His second objection was that the black people who depended on agriculture were not given any right to grow any crop of their choice, they were ordered to grow only cotton which destroyed their lives. They could not grow even vegetables. Cotton was the only choice to grow.