African Slave Trade
and the Holocaust
The
African slave trade existed too many many centuries and it still continues
today which is sad to think about that people still are that cruel to sell
slaves. People that were enslaved were not treated and we think that they were.
Some slaves were given certain rights but they were really restricting. When
that Atlantic and Arab slave trade started the Africans had to change their way
because now they were shipping slaves across the world. In Africa there was
many different types of slaves and they all had different rights. There was
debt slavery where you could work to pay off your debts, there was war slaves
and that’s the slaves that were captured in war and worked until they died or
until the master set them free. There was criminal slavery when if you committed
a crime you work could it off as a slave. In some parts of Africa slaves would
be used as human sacrifice which is pretty disgusting that they believed that
killing someone would bring them good luck. Slaves master owned slaves like
they were a piece of property which is pretty unfair to the slaves because they
would get sold traded or killed without any say in anything. If I child was
born into slavery then it would become the masters property and he could do
anting he wanted with it without consent of the mother. I think that this is
horrible because the mother might never get to see her child be raised, it
would jus tube taken from her and no one would tell her what’s happening to her
child. 90% of slaves were captured by African then sold to Europeans then
traded across the world. When I read this I thought that if I was an African
slave capturer I would feel ashamed because you are capturing your own people
and selling them, people I think would consider you a trader. Most of the
African slave owner knew what awaited to slaves in the new world but they still
had no problem selling them. I think that the slave owner had something wrong
with them if they could do something like that. Some slaves knew what awaited
them so brutal consequences where given to them if they refused to do
something. Europeans didn’t try to stop slave trade until the late 18th
century and early 19th century. France was the first to take action
and abolish it in 1794 but napoleon didn’t agree and let slavery be legal in
1802 and then it was finally done with in 1848. Researchers have estimated that
between the year 600 and 1900 about 20 million slaves were sent around the
world. Around 1/3 of the slaves died in labor work. Thinking about this is
horrible to know that humans can be so cruel do pretty much kidnap millions
people and just sell them away like nothing.
The
holocaust was the mass murder or genocide of approximately six million Jews
during World War II headed by Adolf Hitler who was the leader of Nazi Germany.
I believe that Hitler was one of the most awful people to ever live on earth and
that he had something wrong in his head. During the holocaust over 1 million Jewish
children were killed, about 2 million Jewish women, and 3 million Jewish men. It’s
crazy that Hitler wanted to wipe out an entire race of people. Hitler killed
even more people like the Soviet prisoners of war, polish and soviet citizens,
and homosexuals. Most of all the prisoners were killed in gas chambers or shot.
When people entered a concentration camp they couldn’t bring anything at all,
and once they go inside the aged, women, children, and infants were killed as
quickly as possible. I think that concentration camps were one of the stupidest
ideas ever. If anyone was more than 25% Jewish then they were to be killed with
no exceptions. I hate thinking about this because you might now have even been
converted to the Jewish religion but if your parents or grandparents were then
you would die anyway. The big concentration camps were at Auschwitz, Balzec,
Chelemno, Jasenovac, Majaneck, Maly Trostenets, Sobibor, and Treblinka. A
doctor named Dr. Mengele experimented on the prisoners like putting them in
pressure chambers, testing drugs on them, freezing them, trying to change eye
color and various amputations. This doctor is also one of the messed up people
ever to live. I researcher one of his experiments and he took 2 four year old
twin girls for 3 days and when he brought the girls back he sewn their backs
together like Siamese twins. You can’t even start to think about what was going
through this man’s head when he was doing it, the only think I can think of is
that this guy was going to burn in hell for what he did to people. In 1922
Hitler said “Once I really am in power, my first and foremost task will be the
annihilation of the Jews. As soon as I have power to do so, I will have gallows
built in rows at the Marienplatz in Munich .Then the Jews will be hanged
indiscriminately and they will hanging until they stink; they will hang there
as long as the principles of hygiene permit. As soon as they have been untied,
the next batch will be strung up and so on down the line until the last Jew in
Munich has been exterminated. Other cities will follow until every Jew in
Germany has been completely cleansed of Jews”. This just shows more of how
Hitler was the most evil person on earth. What I think is crazy is that
citizens didn’t know what was happening to the Jews once they left until April
7th, 1944 when Rudolf Vrba escaped from Auschwitz and he finally
brought the first credible news to the world of the mass murder that was
happening. The Holocaust was one of the most horrible thing ever to happen in
the history of the earth.
The
holocaust and the Slave Trade were a lot alike. In both people were captured
and forced to somewhere where they didn’t want to go. Also in both it was with
a huge amount of people, and a huge amount of those people died or was
murdered.
I hate
what Hitler and the slave trade did to people no person should ever have to go
through something like that ever. If don’t even know the words to describe how
I feel about this except that I feel bad that humans can be this cruel to
people. I can’t compare this to my life because throughout my entire life I
have been loved and I have never felt the hate that they have and I have never
endured the pain and suffering that they have. I’m glad that imp going to
Tanzania to help these orphans because their lives are better than slaves but
their lives are still sad. I’m glad I’m going to change their lives. I am once
again thankful for the life I live and didn’t have to go through what some
people did.
