Journal Entry Of A Subordinate Group

1. Creation: African Americans were migrated into the states unwillingly

2. Consequences: African Americans were segregated against and still are to this day to a certain extent

My life has never been that great until now. I was originally from West Africa but now I live in the United States. In 1691 I was at my hut planting sweet potatoes in my family’s garden. My wife and little boy were in the hut cooking supper. It was about evening when I saw a group of white men in horses off in the distance. I ran into the hit to warn my family danger was coming but by the time we got back out the white men, which I learned were European slave traders, was already at our hut. The European slave traders then for odd their horses and went to the back of their carriage and gathered some chains. They told us to lay face down on the ground while they chained out hands and legs. They then forced us into the back of the carriage where there were five other people there. There were two men, one woman and two children. I leaned they were from Central Africa. I was not sure where we was going or why we was being taken and held captive. First I was forced to work for the Europeans. For the time being I was with my wife and child but under the conditions I did not know if they would be with me through the whole thing. I did not know what they was going to do with us or if I was going to be able to stay with my family. My family and I, along with others, worked on a plantation. The days there were hard and long. Some days I did not think I was going to survive. We did not get much to eat or drink, it was all about working. After about three years of working non-stop at the plantation we were told to line up and lay face down on the ground. That day made me have flash backs of the horrible day three years prior to that day. I was scared not only for myself but also for my family. We were then placed back into the carriage and after a long gruesome trip we stopped. The European slave traders came to the carriage and we were escorted to a large body of water. On the edge of the land but on the water there was several large items made of wood, which I later found out was called boats. The European slave traders took us all to the boats and we were forced onto the boats and taken to the bottom of the boats. All of us was cramped together so close I could hear the breathing of everyone around me. The trip we was going on is not known as the transatlantic slave trade which I figured