a path to emancipation

a path to emancipation 

 during the short time I have spent in Form Five, I have learned a lot of educational information. the metropoltian movement which led to emancipation is one of the topics that have stood out to me the most. this movement has been supported by several factors. These factors include social, economic, humanitarian, religious, and social. individuals such as the activists have promoted a lot to help in black emancipation. the acts of people to help have provided blacks with the life we now have. several revolts such as the Berbice revolt and the Haitian revolution have aided minorly towards the termination of slavery. 

the several factors such as the humanitarian, which mainly means that slavery is inhumane. slavery involved the use of unnecessary and brutal punishments which usually resulted in the death of West African slaves. on the plantation slaves' rights were disregarded and all that mattered was their ability to work and produce crops especially sugarcane which was in great demand. on the plantation slaves were starved, beaten, hanged, and abused. planters usually abused their power because they wanted to maintain control of the slaves.  

(There was also a belief slaves were better suited for that type of work and climate because they were used to it from Africa. also, it was believed that it was supported by the bible.) 

they used various forms of slave control to maintain their power over the slaves. this included physical, ideological, psychological, cultural, economic, and social. ideological control was the idea given to slaves that everything black was bad or negative and everything white was good or positive. psychological control was the use of either major or minor cations to convince slaves they were inferior. cultural involved banning Africans from practicing their traditions such as drumming, obeah, and speaking their native language. social control involved the use of status while economic was where slaves relied on the planters for everything.

Furthermore, the economic reasons also prevented this because slaves were dependent on the blacks for basic necessities. these included food, shelter, and clothing. which is why it was difficult for slaves to leave on their own even though they wanted to escape their lives on the plantation. 

many more reasons are included such as religious. this involved the twisting of the Bible's words to suit the white's needs. also social can be included because slavery was used as a way for poor planters to rise to the top of the social class. which is one of the reasons planters wanted to prevent slavery termination. 

despite all this amelioration act came into play. yet sadly it was unsuccessful. the British parliament placed this act into function but because of the impact of the white planters to prevent it from standing it sadly fell into rubble. white planters prevented blacks from knowing of the rights which they gained so most were unaware they could now place evidence against white or they couldn't be given a certain amount of strokes.

later on, a fight for emancipation came into play