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Life of an African Child in 19th Century America

During the painful time of the 19th century, African men, women and children
were terribly involved in slavery. They were shipped from their homeland of Africa and
was brought by force to North America, to where they worked hard hours, non- stop, and
for very little costs. The children greatly suffered through slavery, not knowing what was
going on in this lifetime and why they was doing so. Many of the children in slavery had to
grow up fast and to do chores for themselves and to learn to be strong and independent at
a very young age. They were tortured and had to suffer w/ seeing some of the incidents
that occurred ion the plantation that children should not be seeing at that age. The life of
an African child slave of the 19th century was hard starting from being captured from their
homeland, being sold, work, and the brutal punishments that were brought upon such
children.
The whole start of slavery was that the Europeans need cheap and good labor to
help them esta...

Posted by: Garrick Christian

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