Master Slave Relationships

Master Slave Relationships 

             I read about master slave relationships today and have learned some dark, disturbing, and inhumane things about masters and slaves.  I have realized how truly depressed and unhopeful the slaves were. They had nothing to cling to and didn't have the positivity to say "I can get out of this." They accepted that they were slaves and nothing would change. A few though did not think like that, they had just enough hope and perseverance to not give into the fact about being a slave. One person who was a slave wrote in the article saying, "It was not color, but crime, not God, but man, that afforded the true explanation of the existence of slavery;" This slave over time realized what the masters were doing and realized how incorrect and immoral they were. This slave knew the truth all along, that God did not do this to them, but the masters made him believe that he was unworthy of being a human.
          I also found it interesting about a slave talking how he grew up as a domestic servant and was friends with the children from that household, but all of a sudden they were gone off to school. Then these children came back and were masters, owned slaves, and treated people in an indescribable horrifying way.  These children who grew up in a slave holders home did not see slaves or servants as a lower class or property. The slaves and the children were the same thing; people. Then as those children grew up they treated those people as slaves and abused them. I find that crazy, why can't people be and act like those accepting children? Those kids didn't see those domestic servants as anyone below them, those servants were regular kids. Children accepted the different race and treated any race as all people should be treated. So how could those kids change from being accepting to abusing people and treating them as property? I also wonder, how could anyone abuse people so often, see people as property, and still keep their humane morals within themselves? 

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