American Slavery Speech

American slavery is the worst thing that happened in American history. What do you think? I agree with this statement. I think that this was an awful thing that happened in history. I will be talking about how American slavery affected human rights, the slaves treatment as well as the amount of people who got killed. The tasks that these slaves had and information about the triangular slave trade.

American slavery affected human rights! Human rights is the rights you have simply because you’re human. American slavery was a type of slavery which was legal in America in the 1620 to 1865. Slaves weren’t free, they had to work or else they would be punished or worse murdered. How would you feel if this happened to you or your parents? This is why I state that American slavery is the worst thing that happened in American history.

The way these slaves got treated and the amount of people who died is absolutely disgusting! The way that these slaves were treated was very harsh! The owners of the slaves thought they could do anything to the slaves. They thought that this was ok. The white slave owners chose dark skinned people only because they hated them. Over 10 million people died either because they got, murdered, committed suicide, died because of the journeys around the atlantic sea, starved to death and more.

The work that some slaves had to do was very harsh. They would have to work day til night every single day. There were many jobs for the slaves like harvesting sugar canes, women would have to work in people’s houses and growing crops.

The triangular slave trade is about the trading between 3 continents, Europe, Africa and Americas. America offered raw materials like sugar and cotton to Europe, Europe offered Africa some manufactured goods, Africa on the other hand realised they didn’t have anything to give, so they just sent slaves to America. African tribes would kidnap people from different African tribes and send them to America. Many slaves on board got thrown out. Men on board got chained on the floor, sometimes they got chained to a shelf.

Do you see why slavery in America was so terrible? Most of the white, rich people kept on abusing the dark skinned people from Africa. Do you think that this is fair?

Today, we had to talk about our speech in our thinking groups. My speech was about my statement that I have chose, American slavery is the worst thing that happened in American history. Then after I said my speech, Calvin, Nesi and Evelyn chose how I did on a rubric. In the rubric I saw that I have to talk louder!