Slavery is
one of the most profitable industry in United States’ history. This country was
bought, cultivated and sold on the backs of people who arrived in this country
– mainly against their own will. Slave owners bought the services of the big,
black, “brute” as he stood shackled to a neighbor from his native land.
At the
execution of a sales transaction, the two would go from former neighbors to two
men who share similar cultural history in separate locations. Even more
heart-wrenching than the former neighbors is the separation of husband and
wife, mother and child, brother and sister – also at the brutal hands of
slavery.
Not
impacted by the emotions felt by the trapped human chattel, slave-owners would
visit these sales looking to acquire the strongest, healthiest, young black man
to tend to the soon-to-be profitable land. Even more satisfying than the
short-term profits from a rich harvest was the prospect of finding a strong,
fertile female slave fit for the very best breeding arrangement with the
strapping young male slave.
Now,
through the process of attending a slave sale and “profiling” the dark-skinned
human chattel standing before him a bright, a business-savvy slave owner could
poke, inspect, and asses his investments.
How perverse?
America:
only free for some. Why was this ever
acceptable?
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