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Effects of Slavery on Black Peoples Success in Today's Society.

In the United States of America and other parts of Europe, slavery manifested itself to be brutal in many forms. Slaves were viewed as property to their masters. African Americans were enslaved to provide human labor on large plantations .cotton was the main cash crop grown on these plantations .some others worked in households as domestic workers. Slaves underwent inhuman treatment from their masters. Slave treatment was brutal. Slaves were whipped and executed, masters raped Female slaves, and children born of parents in slavery were denied opportunities to get an education. Diet given to slaves was inadequate compared to the work they did on the farms. They lived in poorly maintained quarters; these conditions made them susceptible to diseases though they did not receive adequate medical attention whenever they fell ill. It was upon their fellow slaves who had learned medicine from their ancestors to treat them. Slaves were separated from their families and were sold away for profits or as a form of punishment. Punishment of slaves was also through many brutal forms, including torture, severe whipping, imprisonment, and mutilation. The slaves were punished for coming late to the plantation, for not working fast enough regardless of their health condition, for attempting to escape, for defying the master, among many other reasons.

Being "property" of the master, slaves could not defend themselves against the white man. Slaves had to endure the oppression and degradation they went through. A slave was not allowed out of the plantation without permission from the master. Neither was a slave allowed to visit other white homes. A slave was not allowed to testify in court against a white, neither were they allowed to fight back in self-defense against a white oppressor. The masters suppressed the black voice. Any form of gatherings was forbidden among slaves. Masters prohibit them from attending church services, citing fears that such gatherings would result in an insurrection.

The brutality and harassment of slaves by the white masters greatly impacted how black people are viewed by our society today. The colonial notion of relating the white man to freedom and the black man to slavery still exists.  Although slavery ended in 1865, race continued to be a significant form of social differentiation and discrimination in British and American society. Whites passed laws to segregate public amenities from African Americans. The rules also prevented intermarriages with whites and left the low-paying dirty, and demeaning jobs to blacks. Writers who supported racism wrote and published articles denoting that the whites were a superior race that it should rule the world. These ideologies to justify white superiority got deeply rooted into the public mind and subconsciously affected how the societies viewed black people. Discrimination of people based on color and race became rampant in community, making the whites looks superior and the blacks to be inferior. Racial ideologies are still being used to govern society. The abusive, traumatic, and dehumanizing acts that the white slave owners infected on slaves have caused a chain of racial ideologies and stereotypes affecting black people's success in today's society.

The effects of slavery are still being felt in our society today. A survey done by Pew Research center gives a statistic of more than eight in ten people in the USA agree to this ideology. (Horowitz, 1). It translates...