A Depiction of the Sufferings of Slaves Specific details on the suffering of African slaves as well as some basic history

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A look into the lives of slaves reveals an existence of despair, in which pain and sorrow was a way of life. During the centuries that people used African slaves to obtain profit and wealth, simply being born the child of an African slave sentenced an individual to the life of bondage and hopelessness. Only by researching the treatment that these people were subjected to can one truly begin to understand the injustice of this …

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…faces of those whose ancestors spent their entire lives working like animals for the sole benefit of their abusers. Works Cited Sawyer, Kem Knapp The Underground Railroad In American History, Berkeley Heights: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 1997 Dillon, Leo and Diane, Many Thousands Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom New York: Knopf, 1993 Still, William The Underground Railroad Philadelphia: Anti-Slavery Society, 1872; reprint, Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, 1970 Blockson, Charles L. The Underground Railroad New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1987