Slavery is...

During Language and History students have been learning a lot about the history of slavery in the 18th and 19th century. They are working on completing perspective writing pieces about an individual attempting to escape slavery. Students were asked to complete the sentence below. No two students responded the same way, and responses were very powerful. Very thoughtful grade 6/7's.

Slavery is…

Slavery is… very unfair, selfish, and mean. It should have never started

Slavery is… depression

Slavery is… the humiliation of getting whipped in public

Slavery is… excluding others because of their colour

Slavery is… taking someone from their family and forcing them to do your work

Slavery is… trading someone like they are toys all because of their skin colour

Slavery is… a whip that is used as excuse to make white people superior

Slavery is… unfair

Slavery is… not being treated the way you should be

Slavery is… like depression, when you don’t want to go anywhere because they might hurt you

Slavery is… unlawful

Slavery is… like being scared and trying to sleep with someone watching you

Slavery is… grief and sorrows from not seeing family and friends

Slavery is… wrong

Slavery is… people being owned and they have to work all day with no pay

Slavery is… when people are wrongfully treated and treated differently from everyone else

Slavery is… when someone works for you with no pay and nothing in return

Slavery is… a disgrace to all of mankind and is frowned upon

Slavery is… a zoo. It’s taking someone from their family and forcing them to do tricks for someone else’s amusement

Slavery is… terrible and a human is a human, everyone should be treated equally

Slavery is… when someone owns another person and makes them do everything for them

Slavery is… un-human

Slavery is… inhumane

Slavery is… unfair coloured imprisonment

Slavery is… being treated like wild animals even though they have rights

Slavery is… slave owners making the slaves do work they are too lazy to do

Slavery is… people not treated fairly

Slavery is… unfair. No one should have to work for another person without any form of pay

Slavery is… disgusting and utterly disgraceful

Slavery is… something I hate the thought of

Slavery is… disrespectful

Slavery is… where someone gets taken from their family and home against their will and are forced to do hard labour

Slavery is… a bad thing that happens that shouldn’t happen anymore. Everyone should be treated the same

Slavery is… not being treated like a human being