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Kevin Schott

Contribution of one

1/18/2015

Since there's civilisation slavery exist among humans. Black people were the favourite choice of
slaves since they were the only kind of race who could handle the hard work slaves usually had to
do. Besides that they were easy to capture by the white man through advanced weapons. When
the Europeans started to colonise and flourish in the americas alot of black slaves were brought
there. Even though the white man enslaved and captured native Americans they still preferred
black slaves since they were stronger and tougher. increasment of the cotton and sugar cane
demant of the world increased the need of plantages and slaves to work on them.
So more and more slaves were brought to the americas. Hundred of years passed where black
people were humiliated, embarassed, treated like nothing and punished when their owners wanted
to without a sight of change.
But then events (wich I wont list since they dont have that much of Importance in this essay)
happened wich made people think differently the story/life I will talk about is only one among
billions wich contributed to the freedom and equality of not only black people but slaves in
general.
This story happened during the middle and late 19th century where some black people were free
but in some states in north America considered as lower humans and so didnt had the same/ as
much rights as the white population and some black people were slaves mostly on cotton and
sugar cane Plantages. The story I will write about is based on the movie 12 years a slave and the
main character is Solomon Northup who lived in Saratoga New York, he worked and lived with
his wife and kids there as a free black man.
So here is his story:
Solomon was a great violonist his great abilities gave him work and opportunities to feed his
family. One day he meet two white guys who offered him a job for 2 weeks and a good payment,
since they wete friendly and seemed alright he accepted the offer. During the time of his job
everything went well for him but then on his last day of work with the two guys they set him
under drugs to sale him as a slave. After he was sold he was bought to lumber Plantage. He then
learned how to behave as a slave and tried to survive with playing the game as a slave he had do
use his new given name he hide is old identity and denied that he can read and write. Since he
worked good and hard as a slave and had some better ideas then his masters assistant his master
and overseer started to like him. Because his master liked him and that he was smarter then the
assistant the assistant hated him that much so he tried to hang him. The overseer of the plantage
safed him because he wasn't fully paided and if he would have died his master would had to pay
him fully at once. Solomon's master then decided to sale him to safe him. His new master treated
every black slave of him horrible. Solomon worked for his new master a long time during that
time he didn't gave up he still tried to survive he even tried to send a letter through a white slave
of his master since he was actually a free man and had papers wich proofed it. But he was

betrayed and that destroyed all of his hopes but he still didnt gave up and continued to play the
game as a slave.
One day a travelling lumberer from Canada worked for his master with Solomon to build a
pavilion. This lumberer wasn't okey with the way how Solomon's master treated "his slaves" he
confronted that to him but it didnt change anything. This action and the friendliness of that one
Canadian lumberer made Solomon open his true identity to him. Before the lumberer left
Solomon asked him for a dangerous favour. he asked him to send a letter to get his free-black
man papers to get his freedom back the lumberer accepted what he asked for. A whilr after the
travelling Canadian left the sheriff and another guy came the Plantage where Solomon was held
as a slave. They recieved his free-black man papers and wanted to get him. Once they were there
they asked him a couple of questions so he can proof that he is Solomon Northup. Solomon was
freeded and then went after the people who soled him as slave and some other guys who held
black slaves with law. Since was black he was considered as a lower human in the state where he
was held as a slave so he lost in terms of law. But then the puplished a book about his life wich he
named 12 years a slave. With that book his strong will to survive and all the horrible things he
had went through he greatly contributed to the freedom of black slaves and awakening of the
white man. In the year 1865 after a civil war black people were completely freed by Abraham
Lincol but they were still considered as people of a lower class but at least they were free and
slavery was illegal.
For people who had to work as slave life was already terrible, thay had to go through incredible
humiliation and pain and that for thousands of years, but I think a slave felt the worst pain when
he/she was free but all the other slaved who he/she worked with were still slaves and had to go
through the horror of their life. Even when slavery became illegal and all those black slaves were
finally free they still had no rest they had to fight for another 100 years after the were all set free
to be accepted by the society as same and euqal. Until the late 1950s or 1960s the were low class
and were still treated under human. Nowadays their all free and euqal in some countries it is even
illegal and fined with high penalties when calling them (if the spesker isn't from black origin)
Niger nigga negro black slave or khafa wich is the oldest version of Niger wich simply means
slave and black people back then were all considered and called niger cause most of them were
slaves.
In the end we are all humans we are all the same. When visiting different countries we can see
and hear the similarities among cultures around the globe. Even though we are all the same
racism is still very present nowadays and some black people are still treated as lower humans by
white people who think that they are something better then them.

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