In the documentary that we watched in World Studies, it tells about how slaves we're mistreated and then eventually, the whites/the court determined that the slaves would no longer be considered people in the court system. Bit if you turn to all of the other documents that we have read in class, we also know that the slaves were very poorly treated. The slaves already had very slim chances of finding freedom with the court system, and many of them even if they tried to seek freedom through the court system, they would commonly find discrimination which would prohibit their freedom.
Do you think that the declaration that people were not to be treated as people in the court system really affected the chances of a black slave to find freedom? Do you think that this act surprised the slaves, or do you think that it didn’t really impact their thoughts of the our system?
Because white men's words were irrevocable and because they were considered as superiors, I believe that the fact that the declaration was made settled the whole issue of the treatment of the black people, whether they were free or enslaved. In my opinion, they were either enraged at the fact that their voices were unheard, or dejected due to the fact that the final words of the whites were spoken and passed on. If l were to place myself into the black men's shoes, I would have lost the morale and will to fight for the unjust and for the rights that the people of my colour and I deserved.
ReplyDeleteI think that the founding father's ideas where to basically saying what all of what Britain's faults were. This had eventually worked, as we do know, to leave the empire. Once it was fully public of what has happened, than it was being read aloud. This is when it started to cause problems. It was only a matter of time that the Declaration of Independence was heard by a slave who would revolt with the justice system like many people did.
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