American slave auction advertised slaves for sale or temporary hire by their
owners. Buyers often paid as much as $2,000 for a skilled, healthy slave.
Such auctions often separated family members from one another, many of
who never saw their loved ones again.
Read the above paragraph and answer the following:
a. “Slavery was a curse” Justify the statement in your opinion.
b. What kind of values are needed to bring slavery to an end?
Slavery was a curse.
1. The practice of slavery is much against humanity.
2. Poverty is the main reason for slavery and hence people should try to employ themselves in a better way instead of working with the sophisticated class.
3. The upper class should consider others also as human beings so that they can employ people for daily wages but not as slaves.
b.
(a). The following are the values that are necessary to bring slavery to an end:
a. Mutual respect for fellow citizens.
b. Right to equality and
c. Understanding that slavery is a bad practice as the people being traded is also human beings.
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