Post Slave Narrative
As I read Louis Hughes’ narrative, a feeling, an almost indescribable one, overwhelmed me. I couldn’t even fathom the horrors that many slaves went through. The idea of being taken away from your mother, at 12, only to be sold into an unknown and unfamiliar plantation amazes me. No one should go through that, and no one has the authority or right, to sell anoter human being. Personally, if I were Louis Hughes, I’d probably have a breakdown, I have no mental strength to be parted from my mother for the rest of my life. The worst part, is that it was the norm for a slave to be sold, and it was pratically inevitable/expected. That right there made me upset, for someone to casually decide to sell another human being, for profit. A human should not be treated as an animal, a human should be treated with respect, and should have their natural rights, no matter what.
It took me a while to fully understand the life of a slave while reading the narrative. It’s not that I didn’t get it, it’s just that I didn’t want to believe that such evil existed. I wish that slavery did not exist, and that all things with that, such as racism also did not exist; but just like everything else that was seen as cruel or awful, it was inevitable, and bound to happen. However, the only good thing that came out of slavery, were the narratives, which will hopefully aid in getting rid of ALL slavery, and that history will not repeat itself.
