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I think that the conditions that they slaves lived through were miserable and the slaves were victims of horrid acts. I manly read the writings of Louis Hughes. His life story begins as he was sold into slavery as a young boy and he gained his freedom in 1865. I believe that the thought that all slaves were born into slavery is such a horrible idea. However, the slaves that were born into slavery and over came were the ones with the real life changing stories. As I was reading I found that slave bidding system and physical examinations to be the most disgusting and horrible thoughts. I believe that the whites ideas about how to treat the slave were very unjust because they knew that the slaves couldn’t do anything to protect themselves therefore they abused them. I also thought that it was horrible that the white masters would pay people to whip their slaves for them. I can not even imagine why someone would want to whip anyone else let a long pay someone to do it! Overall, in the end I have learned a lot from these slave narratives and the narratives made the experience come alive. It seems so unrealistic that these people did not realize what they were doing to slaves was so horrible and still some people today think its ok to discriminate others. Although their are still obstacles in our society today our country has come a long way in abolishing slavery and bringing equality between each race, class, and religion.

Before I being reading the slabe narratives, I generally think that the narratives will suggest the difficulties and hard ships of slavery. Its interesting to figure that these slave narratives were written by slaves that got the chance to learn to read and write. This gave them the opportunity to vocalize there hardships and miserable life being a slave. I believe that letting the slaves learn to read and write helped them gain their freedom. Living on the east coast in a very diverse town it’s extremely hard to comprehend the miserable conditions of the slaves. Slaves barely had a life of their own, their life revolved around there master and if they did not follow they would be punished. I’m very curious to read into these slave narratives which may help me understand the true feelings of the slaves.