World Civilization: Imagine u r a slave, compare and contrast your experiences with other slave (Use slave narratives)

Slavery

Deem our nation brutes no longer

Till some reason ye shall find

Worthier of regard and stronger

Than the colour of our kind

Slaves of gold , whose sordid dealings

Tarnish all your boasted powers

Prove that you have human feelings

Ere you proudly question ours (c

William Cowper 'The Negro 's Complaint (1788

To be honest , it 's quite a complicated task for the person , who 's always lived as a free human being to imagine a situation , where she is deprived of all of her constitutional

rights . In my apprehension slavery is when the person does not have the rights for her life , she doesn 't have a right to breathe , eat and walk . Some may object that every human born has these rights , but , as I see it , knowing that you can be murdered at any moment (and the master of the slave could deprive him /her of his /her life at any moment ) is equal to living without these rights

When I put myself in the position of the slave , I feel that my life path would be very different from that of Ms . Holmes , whom I choose as an object of comparison . The differences in our life paths would be determined , at first , by our social and educational backgrounds . She notes that her parents were uneducated , and we can conclude from her narrative that , moreover , they were illiterate . Meantime , both my parents have a degree , their level of education and , thus , cultural development is much higher

The next difference is that it 's obvious that my parents were able to provide me more attention than Ms . Holmes got from her mother and father . The slaves had to work all the day long , they were very tired and the only thing that interested most of them was the survival of their descendants . They had no opportunity and no time to take care of feelings , desires and hidden dreams of their children they couldn 't provide them needed love , attention and care to let their kids feel they were loved . Thus , as it 's clearly seen from Ms . Holmes 's narrative , they weren 't very emotional towards their kids . At those times it was no wonder when most children in the family didn 't manage to live up to their teens . The attitudes of my parents towards me were different , so that my life as a slave would very different altogether

It is seen from the narrative that the protagonists wasn 't dissatisfied with her position . She was born as a slave , and she didn 't know any other fate except that of the slave . In the same time if I were a slave it would be a very harmful situation for me , as from my earliest years I was taught that no one has the right to decide for you , and to deprive you of constitutional freedoms . It is also that I was raised by more educated parents , and I 'm more educated myself than Ms...