Reply #55: Bad things about being a slave, even with a "kind" master [View All]

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. Being kidnapped from your home and sent across the ocean, never to see your family or friends again, chained in the hold of a ship shoulder to shoulder with other unfortunates.

2. Being sold at a public auction with people pawing over you, checking out your body, your "fitness" for work. Having no control over whom you're sold to or whether the new master buys your spouse and children too.

3. Having to work hard at whatever your master told you to work at, knowing that no matter how hard you worked, you would always be a slave and your children would always be slaves.

4. Knowing that your master could do literally anything he wanted to you: beat you, work you to death, use you sexually, brand you, even use you in medical experiments.

Sounds like fun, huh? I'm sure there were plenty of volunteers for positions as slaves. :sarcasm: