The History of Slavery

The first time i ever witnessed this horrible exhibition, i was quite a child. I wish i could commit to paper the feeling with which i beheld it. Wanting to kill the person doing it, is not an unusual feeling. The overseer who did this, that the ex slave wanted to kill, was himself black. In our little mental experiment to try to view things from all sides, the rashamon approach hard enough. To view it from the of the overseer. Youre lashing the poor black slave to begin with, isn't it? Now try the mind flip that it's going to be, if you happen to be a black person and a slave, perhaps too