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Being about to recognize, understand, and respect another person's point of view is a very important part of the thinking process. Think about enslaved African Americans during the Antebellum Period. This was a glorious time for wealthy white Southerners, but it was the most brutal and difficult time in our nation's history for slaves.

It is important to remember that while African Americans had been enslaved, they were not just slaves. They were husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, and friends. Yet, they were stripped of nearly every human right and labeled as "slaves".

Have you ever wondered what is was like to be a slave? Put yourself in the shoes of a house or field slave during the Antebellum Period and write a journal entry for every day of a week, outlining what a week in the life of a slave might have been like.

In some cases the slaves were treated like the slave-owners children. However, Lewis Clarke believed that some house slaves were worse off than field slaves: "There were four house-slaves in this family, including myself, and though we had not, in all respects, so hard work as the field hands, yet in many things our condition was much worse.The principle is this: If you yield yourself to sin, you become the slave of sin. Jesus stated this in John 8:34: "Verily, verily, I say unto you [that is a little formula that means he is stating basic, fundamental, absolutely foundational truth], he that commits sin is the slave of sin," (John 8:34 KJV).

whippings, slave laws called slave codes, the use of religion, as well as constant punishment and intimidation. All these methods were designed to control slaves and keep them working.

William Wells Brown, a slave from Lexington, Kentucky, explained in his autobiography, Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave (1847): "I was a house servant - a situation preferable to that of a field hand, as I was better fed, better clothed, and not obliged to rise at the ringing of the bell, but about half an hour after."

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