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The cruel and unjust act of slavery played a pertinent part in colonializing foreign

peoples into America. Colonialism, is what started slavery. Slavery started as an institution of

hard labor and grew into a cruel act to and of mankind. The brutal institution of slavery made

colonialism possible along with stripping away all history and souls ofpeople, victimizingeveryone involved. Frederick Douglass, a worked slave himself; started the the end of cruel

slavery by telling his story and speaking out.

In order for the British to come to America and be successful, they had to start colonies

with plantations on them to make money. If you can visualize colonialism it would look like a

gigantic factory with a bunch of workers in it.(Pettengill, 2011) The colonies with these

plantations needed hard labor workers depending on what kind of plantation it was being

tobacco, rice, or sugar to do the labor. The more product the more money, which of course,

needed more labor workers to keep it running. The colonies grew vast and widespread bringing

more and more slaves in. The Europeans would bring African slaves in on the way into America

buying them as a lifelong investments, because they reduce production costs. This production

process spread like wildfire. Slaves were being bought by the wealthy people. The rich were

getting richer while the slaves did all the hard work and labor.

As the colonies grew in size, the children of the slaves were taken from their mothers

and their fathers at a very young age. They were then raised into believing that they were owned

by the master or white man. Being a victim of slavery himself, Douglass was denied the ability

to read, write or know any of his family members or history. Genealogical trees do not flourish

among slaves (Douglass, 30) slavery does away with fathers as it does away with families.

Slavery has no use for the fathers or families and its laws do not recognize their existence in

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social arrangements of the plantation.(Douglass, 40) Slavery stripped everything away that

identified him as a person. The system of slavery embezzled identities, along with taking all the

individuals heritage and background. Not knowing where or when he was born or who his real

parents are.

Douglass, believed that slavery was plainly unnatural, and with a system that fails for

everyone. Meaning that not just blacks had to suffer in the presence of slavery but the whites

and anyone that was around slavery would have suffer in some way shape or form. Slavery

made us enemies. (Douglass, 119). The plantation had its own rules, languages, and

regulations. The master makes all the decisions of all the slave is treated like an animal

segregated from the whites. Many times, a male overseer or master would be interested or

pursue a black female slave as where the white mans wife acknowledged it and became

jealous and hateful. Abhorrence thoughts and orders would arise making that household

unbearable and uncomfortable to live in. Leading us back, to everyone that is involved with

slavery suffers. Slavery is ignoble, abusive and unnatural.

In conclusion, Douglass made himself an icon and an idol in history, by standing up

for the primacy of the slave or black man. From being someone with no identity or knowledge,

to being beaten, starved and abused; he escaped from slavery. He ran away from it, and became

a speaker for the abolishment of slavery; trying to put an end to the ruthless abuse of an innocent

human being. Frederick later became very famous and well-known, he knew many leaders.

Douglass spoke up for what he thought was right, which many were too afraid to do .

If it were not for these slaves, the plantations would never have produced the product.

It is a very inherent part of colonialism!