Slavery: Roots Reflection

The movie Roots is very harsh and presents real facts about slavery during the 1700's. From the parts that we watched, I learned many things about how the white people treated the slaves from when they were capturing them in their own villages to when they were in their owner's house working. I learned that when the white men transported the slaves, there were about 100 slaves or more in the ships. They were chained to wooden beds for months and they only went up to exercise. They were barely fed and the white men on board could rape the women and it was okay. In the slave auctions, the white people treated them like animals. They first saw the condition of the slaves and then offered money for them. They would force them to go with their owners and they were whipped and tortured to go. When the slaves went to their owners' houses, they were forced to work on whatever they needed them for and they had to learn to obey their masters. This movie, even though it is very cruel, it is very informative and lets people know how the slaves were treated during the 1700's in the United States.