Town Hall Meeting Reflection

While playing the Frederick Douglass game, I learned and got reminded about the horrors of slavery. The cruelty that would happen to slaves was extraordinary and not reasonable to happen to human beings. Unfortunately, slaves were not looked at as human beings during that time period, so the slaveowners made it acceptable for these incidents to occur.

                                                                     Frederick Douglass

Slaves had their basic freedoms taken away from them. Mothers' sons would be ripped away from them and be sold to never be seen again. Slaveowners would do this as punishments for their slaves. Imagine you mess up slightly while doing a task, and then your children are being sold away from you.

Harriet Tubman was rented out as if she was not human. She served as a nurse for her master, and she
would get whipped every time their baby would cry.

                                                                         Harriet Tubman

Sojourner Truth didn't even have a birthday. He was born straight into slavery. He was bought for one hundred dollars and a flock of sheep. 

It was said that white doctors would not use anesthesia on black patients because "black people do not feel the same pain as the white people." 

After hearing all of these stories from the slave perspective, it shows how I did not see the extent of the cruelty of what these people went through. Every day they would be in the fields or house fighting to do everything perfectly, just so that they could live to see the next day. This town hall meeting was extremely beneficial in a way that it opened my eyes fully, and I could see what they fully went through.