With the trade between countries, the exchanges and contacts between people from different countries have also begun to increase, and traveling abroad and studying abroad have become a very common way of transnational communication in people's lives.
However, although it is easy to go abroad, it is difficult to avoid the racist ideas engraved in the bones of some people, especially in European countries, discrimination against race and skin color still exists, and no matter how the humanistic society or the rule of law society restricts and prohibits it, this phenomenon cannot be eradicated.
The reason for this is that it all stems from the slave trade in the 15th century. In the environment at that time, black slaves were devastated, and female black slaves had no human rights, not only to suffer inhuman torture, but also to be kept and forced to reproduce like livestock, so how cruel and inhumane was the black slave trade?
The brutal slave trade
The history of the slave trade can be traced back to the 15th century, when European colonizers were expanding around the world, conquering, occupying and establishing colonies to obtain resources and wealth, and Africa, as a resource-rich continent, naturally became an important target for European colonizers.
When European colonizers came to Africa, they not only killed many local Indians, but also captured the surviving displaced blacks as cheap laborers. At the same time, they transported these blacks to the plantations, mines, and factories of the American colonies to work day and night, without regard for their rights as human beings.
As a result of this situation, some European merchants saw business opportunities and became actively involved in it, forming a large market for the slave trade. Subsequently, large numbers of Africans were kidnapped, trafficked and shipped to the Americas and Europe in the hold of ships.
In the process, many Africans died of disease, starvation, violence, etc., but this was not the worst of all, in a sense, death was actually another form of relief for them, and the fate of the blacks who were transported to the slave owners in the Americas was the worst.
Upon arrival in the Americas, these blacks were sold on the market as commodities, and their fate was entirely in the hands of slave owners. They were forced to perform heavy manual labor, such as planting crops and mining ores, and lived in extremely poor conditions, often with cruel punishment.
Once they are made slaves, even their families are not spared, not only will their families be torn apart, but even their children will be deprived of the right to education and live in poverty and ignorance. On top of that, because of this status, they are also seen as inferior, deprived of their rights and dignity, and have no human rights at all.
Black women, in particular, were completely reduced to the vassals and playthings of their slave owners when they became slaves, not only to engage in manual labor, but also to meet the needs of their male masters, even if they were forced to do so, and they had no right to refuse and justify. The most terrible thing is that they are still kept in captivity like livestock, forced to reproduce like those animals, why is that?
Black female slaves without human rights
In ancient times, women's social identity and status have always been relatively low compared to men because of their biological inferiority, and this kind of inequality existed not only in ancient China, but also in ancient Europe, where the ideology was avant-garde, so it is conceivable how low her status is after becoming a slave.
Anyone who has read the autobiographical novel "Documentary of Events" can probably understand how tragic the fate of female slaves was under slavery, because its author, Harriet Jackbooth, was once a female slave, and all the gender violence and oppression she told about female slaves in the book were all experienced by her.
Harriet Jackbooth was born on a cotton plantation in North Carolina to a mother who was a domestic maid and a father who was a carpenter, and as the descendant of a black slave, her identity was condemned to humility from the moment she was born.
In her memory, there was no relaxed and happy class in her childhood, no laughter and play between friends, only an endless and hard work life, as a slave child, she had to work like her parents to stay in the slave owner's home and not be separated from her parents.
However, even so, it doesn't mean that she can stay forever. At the age of 12, her original slave owner died, and she was bequeathed to a cruel and greedy new master, Dr. Nock.
Although Dr. Nock has a profession of helping people and saving people, he is a psychopathic and distorted Sven scum behind the scenes. Looking at Harriet Jack Booth, who was only 12 years old and had not yet grown his body, he had an undeserved desire for him. So, taking advantage of his status as a slave owner, he often harassed and threatened the young black girl.
Before meeting her true love, Harriet Jackbooth was violated by this beast for a long time, and even though she resisted it many times, she still couldn't avoid it, just because she was a slave.
And it was in such a physically and mentally devastated environment that she finally fell in love with a black man, and the two fell in love freely and gave birth to two children.
However, this is not the beginning of happiness, you must know that the children of slaves are also slaves, just like livestock, after giving birth to cubs, the disposal of cubs is still in the hands of the master, and slaves are no exception.
After Harriet Jackbooth gave birth to her child, before she could enjoy the joy of motherhood, Dr. Nock sold her and her baby to an even worse host, threatening to separate them and torture them.
Dr. Nock's words were not unfounded, as a slave owner he did have such power, otherwise Harriet Jackbooth would not have been hiding in the attic for seven full years out of fear.
This is also a kind of helplessness of female black slaves, take Harriet Jack Booth as an example, she gave birth to a child because of free love, but the ownership of the child does not belong to her, the slave owner can leave the child to her if he is happy, and the slave owner is not happy that the child is born or dead.
It is precisely because the slave owners have so much power that the black slave trade has developed later, in order to form this trade into an industrial chain and maximize the interests of the slave owners, some cruel slave owners have kept these female black slaves in captivity, and when they work, they will let them go out to work for themselves, and when they are not working, they will be forced to have a relationship with male black slaves.
And the purpose of this is to have a steady stream of black slaves to buy and sell, which can be said to be very inhumane. But in that environment, few people dared to stand up and resist, because the slave owners could execute disobedient black slaves at will, and they would not be punished in any way.
Therefore, many female black slaves can only follow the arrangement of the slave owner to give birth to children regularly, but after the child is born, it must be handed over to the slave owner to raise, and when the child is older, it will be sold to the new slave owner as a slave through the form of sale.
From the perspective of modern people, it is indeed difficult to accept such an arrangement, but the black people at that time did come over like this, and people can't help but sigh that the abolition of slavery is really a very wise approach in human history, otherwise I dare not imagine what our society will become today.