What is slavery?

In my own words slavery is to make someone to do something for you by force. For example, the "white man" beating up the black man because the black man is weak and can't keep planting. That's an example of how slavery was in America. A smaller example would be, a man beats his wife because he wants her to do all the shores in the house. Even though most people don't see that as slavery, it is because he is making her do something for him against her own will. Sometimes you don't even have to beat someone up to make them do what you want, you can also threat people to make them do things for you but that is also a way of slavery.

Who was impacted by slavery?

Slavery made a very big impact to the African American in the Unite States. Slavery changed their whole way of living. It changed their traditions, their language, their music, their food, their clothing, their values, their culture. Slavery impacted slaves the most out of every one else involved. slavery transformed those slaves completely.

Slavery impacted slave owner in a good way because they had the slaves to do the work for them and the saved a lot of money. For example if a farmer used to work at his farm but then he/she got a slave, he/she could lay back and relax while his/her slave is doing the work for them. It was better for them to have a slave than hiring a worker because they would need to pay the worker but they didn't need to pay the slave if they didn't want to.

Slavery touched Abolitionist's heart in a way that made them start a conflict in government in order to give the slaves their freedom. Slavery was a motivations to abolitionist to speak out and do what was right. Slavery gave abolitionist a chance to be brave and be remembered in history.

my 500 word essay

The historial event topic that I selected from the website eyewitness to history from the 19th Century time period, it’s called A slave’s life. This event is about a young slave girl name Elizabeth or “lizzie”. She was born in virginia around 1818 and the story tell a about her life. When she was about fourteen years old when she was given to her master's oldest son as a wedding present. Not too long after that, the son moved his household to North Carolina where he became the pastor of a small parish. This was the place where she gave birth at age eighteen to her only child - a boy- the result of an unwanted sexual relationship with a white man whom she never named. A few years after that she went back to Virginia and became the slave of her original master’s daughter. Lizzie’s masters in Virginia were going through some bad economical times not Lizzie had learned her sewing skills from her mother, was hired as a seamstress which attracted a large amount of people. Lizzie's life changed when her master told her she could buy her release from slavery for $1,200.00 which is like $27,000 in today's money. Her patrons loaned her the money so her freedom and her son’s were granted in 1855. By 1860, the two had made their way to Washington, D.C. where Lizzie set up shop. Her skills again resulted in a large and influential clientele including Mary Lincoln who hired Lizzie as her personal maid and seamstress.
This event happened because lizzie had heart and passion in what she did. In Addition, lizzie went through a hard childhood. She was the only child and she grew up with only her mother. Lizzie was tired of being treated like garage and tired of everyone taking advantage of her and treating her wrong. That is why she decided to be greater then what everyone else thought she could be.

I am convinced that this was a good slave experience because the “white people” respected her more when they saw that a female slave bought her son’s and her freedom and then opened up her own business and she was successful at it. I am pretty sure that other slaves were motivated and expired by her and what she did and that’s how we had so many courageous African-American such as Marthin luther king jr, Rosa park, Obama, ect. Lizzie’s actions did not only expire other slaves but it also expired people like me.
This article supports my thesis because I stated that slave owners should treat their slaves better. For example, if lizzie’s master wouldn’t have raped her he wouldn’t have the kid and that is more people to feed. If slave owners treat their slaves right they would save more money and if they would feed them right and give them a comfortable bed the slaves would work better and the slave owner would be making more money than he would by treating the slaves badly.

my family

At home, I live with my mom, my grandma, my aunt, my big brother, my two little sisters and my step dad.

my mom loves taking naps in the afternoon and hates being kissed by a lot of people, she also graduated recently to become a pastor

My grandma is the coolest grandma any body could ever have, she makes the best birthday cakes, baby shower cakes and Quinceañera cake, she made mines.

My aunt and my grandma make sure we have more than enough food. I love their food its delicious.

my brother eats alot, so having too much food isn't a problem. My brother's Hobey is to annoy my sisters and me.

My two little sisters love animals. They spend alot of time together but they are very different. One of them loves to eat, the other one thinks she is a barbie, But they both love doing mom's carwash.


my step dad is not Dominican like us but he is doin a good job at fitting in.





Yeah I know we are a big happy family.

have you ever...

have you ever felt so bored with nothing you can do to be entertained?

have you ever felt like the only thing you are really good at, others think you suck at it?

have you ever notice that you can't please everyone you love and by that you feel like you can't please your self?

have you ever try so hard to do something good for someone special but they don't apreciate your hard work?

have you ever felt like everything you do for others is never enough?

have you felt like through out your whole life, you've been working hard for your future but you don't know why?

have you ever felt like you don't care what your purpose in life is because you don't even know what's the purpose of you living?

have you ever thought about the way people treat you?

have you ever thought about the the you treat people?

have you ever thought that if you give the best of you to the wolrd, it might do the the same for you?

have you ever thought about living the past behind, and live each day like if it is your last day on earth?

I have=)

Embarrassed

Once upon a time, a big, weird, loud, happy family went to Atlantic City to have a Good time at the beach. As always, there is always going to be a proplem with fourteen year old girls. This fourteen year old girl went to the beach wearing a bikini, the ones that tie up on sides. well, they went in the water and had a great time. Sadly, the great time didnt last too long for this girl because a huge wave pull off the botton part of her bikini. She turn to her mom that was standing next to her and told her "a wave pull off my bikini and I'm half naked!" Her mom's first reaction was to start laughing so hard that her stomach hurted so she crawled away leaving the girl half-naked among the people. Fifteen minutes later the mom was still gone and the girl was still half-naked. The waves pulled her back and fouth and back and fourth untill her mother came back with her shorts. Unfortunatly her cellphone was in her short's pockets but she wasn't worry about that as much as she was worring about the peolple laughing at her while she got out of the water.

"This is a true story..... trut me"

Hair

My hair is a problem. Everyday when I wake up it takes me forever to untangle the knots in it. If I wet it, it gets puffy; if i blow dry it, it gets puffy. I can never make it look nice no matter what i do to it. I'm Dominican but everyone thinks I am African-American because of my hair. Nobody would take me seriously when they see the puff on top of my head. My mom told me to cut it all off but i said nah...I love my hair.