Slave trade Blog

After hearing J.Q. Adams testimony, I will have to rule in favor of the Africans. His strong words filled me with remorse for these poor Africans. It made me thing about what it would be like to be in their shoes. I know for a fact that I would not want to be treated as property and do the amount of hard labor that they do. Even after that, there was still one piece of information that i needed to completely rule in favor of the Africans. The part that stood out the most to me was when Adams said that if we do not treat everybody equal, we should tear up the declaration. It made me think about all the hardships that the country faced in making and standing by the declaration. So my final decision is in fact to let the Africans be free and treated like people and not property. I wish the best for the Africans in all of their the future endeavors.