Thursday, November 20, 2008

Slavery vs. Extinciton

When we were in class last week we learned about Native Americans. We learned about how Native Americans got killed for no reason. We also learned about how Native Americans had to stay in one area, and by the governments force were not allowed to leave. So here is the question, who had it worse African Americans or the Native Americans?

The reason why people might think Native Americans had it worse was because for one thing Native Americans are pretty much extincted. They are extincted because the white settlers killed Native Americans for no reason. The white settlers would kill the buffalo, which means the Native Americans had no food to eat. Another thing was the government made some groups of Native Americans stay in their reservoirs and made sure that the Native Americans did not leave. So that means the Native Americans could not hunt buffalo, which means Native Americans would die.

The reason why African Americans had it worse was because Africans got took from their homeland and were forced to work for the white man. If Africans refused to work they would be beaten with a whip until they either worked or die from the loss of blood. Also innocent African women would get raped by the slave owner and most of the time would have a bastard child. Families would be spilt up and they would never see each other again.

So that is how the African Americans had it worse, and how the Native Americans had it worse. Both groups of people had to go through a lot to survive over the years. One group is booming while the other group is trying to survive. Now the decision is up to you to decide who had it worse!