American Dream: Slave Narrative

Reflection

To see people go through such problems is very hard to look at. In most cases people avoid the issue or don't go through it. The African-American community has suffered more than anyone else. They had to go through decades of slavery and even more decades of discrimination. Life certainly has been easy for them.
Us on the other hand have had it descently easy and yet some think that we have had it worse. To those some, you are crazy for everyone has had it harder than us white people. I also hate people try to act like they know their struggle when they don't have any idea. It is insuting to us smart white people.

Diary

It is so hard to be working at my age. First it was that accursed boat ride where i was taken from my home and left here to work myself to death. I'm tired of this cotten field and I am tired of my master. My hands are cut and bruised and my spirit is broken. I can't handle this anymore. I just to be laid to rest. I wish that someday my family can acheive my dream and be free of this treatment. No one deserves this kind of abuse from any man.

Essential Question

When the American Dream of an entire culture or religion is faced with conflict, how will it change the community around that dream?

The American Dream of the average African-American slave was to have freedom and rights while the dream of the white men was to have free workers and to get easy money. The white men took advantage of African-Americans and took them from their homes so that they could work here for no pay, which empowered the white man dream but at the same time took away the African-American dream.