UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

Underground Railroad

Abstract

After describing some key features of life in an underground railroad and the nature of gray agency, Conception illustrates how survivors of relationship slavery can stop levying misplaced blame on them without giving up the valuable practice of blaming. Conception concludes that by choosing a relatively non-oppressive account of self-blame, some amount of internalized oppression can be overcome and the double bind of agency-denial and self-loathing associated with being an oppressively grafted agent can be reduced.

 

Introduction

A look at the lives of slaves reveals a life of despair, where the pain and grief is a way of life. Over the centuries the people who used African slaves to obtain the benefits and resources just by being born the son of an African slave sentenced to an individual in the life of drudgery and despair. Only through research on the treatment that these people are subjected to can you really begin to understand the injustice of these practices.

Thesis Statement

African slaves were not given respect, and are treated with less dignity than farm animals. They usually worked in the morning and afternoon, and had a thin food. A letter from a Virginia planter details on food from a slave is usually given, saying that the slave has accepted the 12 / 4 wheat flour, seven salted herring, and 2 pounds of bacon a week (Sawyer 18). Masters also provided their slaves with a few pieces of clothing per year.

Code written by the legislature of the state is strictly enforced. Louisiana code, similar to the code written in the Southern States, stated in part: "The condition of being slaves just a passive instrument, its subordination to his master and to all those who are not likely to change or restrictions . He owes his master, and his entire family, a respect without bounds, and absolute obedience, and therefore it is to execute all the orders he receives, "said his master, or with them" (Sawyer 20). Codes essentially said that the slaves had to passively submit to his master, and he could not leave the land of his master without a pass. African slaves were not allowed to learn to read or write, but slaves in the states Maryland, Kentucky, and the city of Washington. Slaves were not allowed to meet in groups larger than five, and they can not practice medicine, taking guns, raise animals, or testify against whites ( Sawyer 20). William Still (62) tells the story of a young slave named Anthony Blow, who was shot in the squirrel shooting of a sheriff who tried to arrest him for striking off three white men who have tried to beat.

Literature Review

Penalties for breaking the code is usually an acute stroke, and occasionally, a master of his slave servants bathe their bodies fresh whipped salty water to intensify the pain (still 133). The death penalty is not used for killing but for minor offenses such as theft, arson, and rebellion. Escape is a dangerous process, and harsh punishment for escape is used to ...