Slavery Paper

Since long ago, the institution of slavery has been very common amongst many countries. The institution of slavery began with the need for hard labor workers in the southern plantations and the solution for that was to bring Africans to America and make them slaves. Some historians believe that the institution of slavery was a harmless but helpful institution to our society. Contrary to that, Kenneth Stampp believes that slavery greatly impacted the physical and psychological lives of slaves and their descendants. Through the separation from family and friends, the daily backbreaking labor, and the merciless punishments, slaves’ lives were damaged, both physically and psychologically.
The separation of slave families impacted the slaves heavily. As Brinkley writes, “…slave families were often divided, with husbands and fathers frequently living on neighboring plantations (or...sold to plantation owners far away), black women often found themselves acting in effect as single pare...