... describe slaves. She also commonly refers to how they are treated, "They put him in a rough box, and buried him with less feeling than would have been manifested for a house dog" (380). Linda suffers from the effects of slavery her entire life, even after the escape. The effect of the retreat on her limbs leaves her partly crippled physically, and the ... , in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend" (344). Many of the children born to slave mothers were actually the result of a rape by the master. Thus, the child is a constant reminder of this sha...

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... to mention horses and 20 hunting dogs. Of course, the Spanish won. From then on, Hispaniola just became a land of chaos. Spaniards hunted Indians for sport and murdered them for dog food. They would make bets as to who could kill a man in one blow. They would hang the Dienos from a stake a few feet away from the ground. The Spaniards would ... food and even carry them where they wanted to go. There's one particular revolting part of the slave trade that was sexual. Columbus was rewarding lieutenants with native women to rape. The slave trade destroyed whole Indian nations. Indians that ...

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... accounts, he points out one example which conveys the brutality of Columbus and his men: "They would even take Indians from place to place with them as a kind of mobile dog food. When they got to where they were going for the night, [they would] allow the dogs to tear one of them apart and eat them" (CNN). Indian populations were ... . Columbus was personally and intimately involved in these senseless acts of violence against the native people of the islands of the Caribbean, where he landed. He encouraged his men to rape native women as young as nine or ten, and he punished minor offens...

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